Definition of Trichite

1. n. A kind of crystallite resembling a bunch of hairs, common in obsidian. See Illust. of Crystallite.

Definition of Trichite

1. Noun. (minerology) A kind of crystallite resembling a bunch of hairs, common in obsidian. ¹

2. Noun. (zoology) A delicate, hair-like siliceous spicule, found in certain sponges. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Trichite

1. a minute mineral body found in volcanic rocks [n -S]

Medical Definition of Trichite

1. 1. A kind of crystallite resembling a bunch of hairs, common in obsidian. 2. A delicate, hairlike siliceous spicule, found in certain sponges. Trichite sheaf, one of the small sheaflike fascicles of slender setae characteristic of certain sponges. Origin: Gr, hair. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trichite

trichinellosis
trichiniasis
trichiniferous
trichinization
trichinize
trichinized
trichinizes
trichinizing
trichinoscope
trichinoscopes
trichinoses
trichinosis
trichinous
trichion
trichions
trichite (current term)
trichites
trichitis
trichiuriform
trichiuroid
trichiurus
trichlor
trichloracetic acid
trichloral
trichloramine
trichlorfon
trichlorfons
trichlorhydrin
trichloride
trichlorides

Literary usage of Trichite

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elemente Der Geologie by Hermann Credner (1897)
"... (trichite). Nach Zirkel. durchsichtigen wasserhellen, in größeren Exemplaren das Licht polarisierenden Belo- niten erscheinen in glasigen Gesteinen ..."

2. A System of Mineralogy: Descriptive Mineralogy, Comprising the Most Recent by James Dwight Dana, George Jarvis Brush (1890)
"trichite, lii:i,i ). ... a needle), colorless and transparent. The trichite, he states, is not pyrox- ene or hornblende ..."

3. A System of Mineralogy: Descriptive Mineralogy, Comprising the Most Recent by James Dwight Dana, George Jarvis Brush, Edward Salisbury Dana (1885)
"383, 384, and in the accompanying text, the minus symbols should properly (according to the principle on p. xxvii) be plus, and the reverse. trichite ..."

4. Manual of Mineralogy and Petrography: Containing the Elements of the Science by James Dwight Dana (1897)
"... pearly lustre from the Nevada Basin, having its trichite clusters very numerous, and arranged in lines or planes, and some of the ..."

5. The Volcanoes of the Kula Basin in Lydia by Henry Stephens Washington (1894)
"Besides these glassy inclusions there were seen two olivine crys tals containing peculiar trichite inclusions, such inclusions being, it may be stated, ..."

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