holocrystalline
Britishadjective
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All these types are holocrystalline, and range in texture from coarse granite with augen an inch long down to a fine epidote granite with scarcely visible crystals.
From History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia by James William Head
That is, the metamorphic rocks are characteristically holocrystalline, while igneous rocks are porphyritic, or cryptocrystalline.
From North America by Israel C. (Cook) Russell
It seems therefore that a holocrystalline pyroxene-garnet rock may be one source of the diamond found in blue ground.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
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