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Definition of Porcelaneous
1. a. Of or pertaining to porcelain; resembling porcelain; as, porcelaneous shells.
Definition of Porcelaneous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Porcelaneous
Literary usage of Porcelaneous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chemistry of Animal Bodies by Thomas Thomson (1843)
"porcelaneous shells, when exposed to a red heat, crackle and lose the colour ...
porcelaneous shells, then, consist of carbonate of lime cemented together ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1903)
"porcelaneous rock, with seams of calcite (dog-tooth spar principally), 15 8. ...
Knob of porcelaneous rock, with chalcedony seams, . ..."
3. Physical Facts and Scriptural Record: Or, Eighteen Propositions for Geologists by William Brown Galloway (1872)
"Sir John Lubbock mentions very particularly the fine porcelaneous polish and
gloss of surface ... That fine porcelaneous surface is an evidence of natural, ..."
4. Bulletins of American Paleontology by Cornell University, Paleontological Research Institution (1895)
"Nucleus smooth, porcelaneous, inflated, and somewhat lopsided, the first turn
hardly coiled ... 167) in having a porcelaneous apex rather than a glassy one, ..."
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