refringent
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- refringency noun
Etymology
Origin of refringent
1770–80; < Latin refringent- (stem of refringēns ), present participle of refringere to break up. See refract, -ent
Example Sentences
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Between the spores a certain amount of intercellular substance or residual protoplasm is left, in which the refringent granules seem to be embedded.
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The endoplasm contains a number of large refringent granules—probably body products.
From Project Gutenberg
Its mycelian filaments, if one may so describe them, have been produced scarcely for twenty-four or forty-eight hours when they are seen to transform themselves, those especially which are in free contact with the air, into very refringent corpuscles, capable of gradually isolating themselves into true germs of slight organization.
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