botryoidal
having the form of a bunch of grapes: botryoidal hematite.
Origin of botryoidal
1- Also bot·ry·oid, botryose.
Other words from botryoidal
- bot·ry·oi·dal·ly, adverb
Words Nearby botryoidal
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How to use botryoidal in a sentence
It is never found as crystals, but always as encrusting and botryoidal masses with a microcrystalline structure.
A fibrous variety with a botryoidal or globular surface is known as botryolite.
At Arendal in Norway, the original locality for both the crystallized and botryoidal varieties, it is found in a bed of magnetite.
These shells occur at Hartlepool and Sunderland, where the rock assumes an oolitic and botryoidal character.
A Manual of Elementary Geology | Charles Lyell.Our decks became dry, and studded with botryoidal lumps of dirty foot-trodden ice.
Adrift in the Arctic Ice Pack | Elisha Kent Kane
British Dictionary definitions for botryoidal
botryose (ˈbɒtrɪˌəʊs, -ˌəʊz)
/ (ˌbɒtrɪˈɔɪdəl) /
(of minerals, parts of plants, etc) shaped like a bunch of grapes
Origin of botryoidal
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Scientific definitions for botryoidal
[ bŏt′rē-oid′l ]
Shaped like a bunch of grapes. Certain minerals and parts of organisms can be botryoidal.
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