amygdaloid
Americannoun
adjective
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(of rocks) containing amygdules.
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Anatomy. of or relating to an amygdala.
noun
adjective
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having the shape of an almond
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a less common form of amygdaloidal
Etymology
Origin of amygdaloid
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“There was one subgroup of those that had a lot of amygdaloid and cingulate cortex type of activity, so they stood out.”
From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2014
Together with the cavities formed by amygdaloid chambers and crevices caused by erosion, they give the cliffs the appearance of a huge, irregular honeycomb.
From The Delight Makers by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
Quartz crystals, with chalcedony, from nodules in amygdaloid.
From Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by Phillip Parker King
I did not see there any pyroxene; but on the very spot I recognized a number of crystals in the amygdaloid, which appears so strongly linked to the grunstein that they alternate several times.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt
The molten trap broke through at various times, and presenting various appearances, but in nearly the same centre; here existing as an augitic rock, there as a syenite, yonder as a basalt or amygdaloid.
From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by W. S. (William Samuel) Symonds
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