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Definition of Botryoidal
1. Adjective. Resembling a cluster of grapes in form.
Definition of Botryoidal
1. Adjective. (mostly mineralogy) Having the form of a bunch of grapes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Botryoidal
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Botryoidal
Literary usage of Botryoidal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A System of Mineralogy: Including an Extended Treatise on Crystallography by James Dwight Dana (1837)
"botryoidal ; when there is a tendency to radiation from a centre, ... Mammillary ;
resembles the botryoidal, but is composed of larger prominences. ..."
2. A System of Mineralogy: Descriptive Mineralogy, Comprising the Most Recent by James Dwight Dana, George Jarvis Brush, Edward Salisbury Dana (1885)
"Also botryoidal and globular, having a columnar structure ; also divergent and
radiating ; also massive, granular to compact. 363 3.-7 Isle Royale. ..."
3. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1880)
"botryoidal tissue (so-called hepatic tissue).—I have now to notice another
development of the vaso-fibrous tissue, the characters of which are such as to ..."
4. A Student's Text-book of Zoology by Adam Sedgwick, Joseph Jackson Lister, Arthur Everett Shipley (1898)
"These botryoidal vessels contain a red fluid, and constitute a tubular network
lying between the ... In places they are swollen into the botryoidal sinuses, ..."
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