holocrystalline

British

/ ˌhɒləˈkrɪstəˌlaɪn /

adjective

(of igneous rocks) having only crystalline components and no glass Compare hemicrystalline

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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

That is, the metamorphic rocks are characteristically holocrystalline, while igneous rocks are porphyritic, or cryptocrystalline.

From North America by Russell, Israel C. (Cook)

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 Head, James William

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