micaceous

[mahy-key-shuhs]

adjective

1. consisting of, containing, or resembling mica.

2. of or relating to mica.

Other Word Forms

• unmicaceous adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of micaceous¹

First recorded in 1765–75; mic(a) + -aceous

Example Sentences

I have a collection of earthenware vessels: casseroles and shallower dishes from Cook on Clay, micaceous pots made by native New Mexico potters, Italian baking dishes, and so forth.

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Hispanic pottery is more popular, made with micaceous clay and traditionally used for cooking vegetables like beans.

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The shining substance proved to be, as I had supposed, the micaceous particles of disintegrated granite.

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Pining only seizes on thriving sheep, preferring young ones, those more especially of the larger breeds, and is confined to farms where the land is principally micaceous and covered with occasional stripes of benty grasses.

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The glaciers looked down kind and radiant from above the high cliffs of micaceous schist, which, turning here towards the south-east, form the opening of the gorge of the M�nster-thal.

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