Word Meanings - PHANEROCRYSTALLINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Distinctly crystalline; -- used of rocks. Opposed to Ant: cryptocrystalline.
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- OPPOSABILITY
The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace. - OPPOSITIONIST
One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed. - OPPOSITIVE
Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall. - OPPOSELESS
Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak. - OPPOSITIFOLIOUS
Placed at the same node with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem; as, an oppositifolious peduncle. - CRYSTALLINE
1. Consisting, or made, of crystal. Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline. Shak. 2. Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture. Their crystalline structure. Whewell. 3. Imperfectly crystallized; as, granite is only crystalline, - OPPOSABLE
1. Capable of being opposed or resisted. 2. Capable of being placed opposite something else; as, the thumb is opposable to the forefinger. - OPPOSE
1. To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit. Her grace sat down . . . In a rich chair of state; opposing freely The beauty of her person to the people. Shak. 2. To put in opposition, with a view to counterbalance - OPPOSITISEPALOUS
Placed in front of a sepal. - OPPOSITION
The situation of a heavenly body with respect to another when in the part of the heavens directly opposite to it; especially, the position of a planet or satellite when its longitude differs from that of the sun 180º; -- signified by the symbol - ROCKSUCKER
A lamprey. - CRYPTOCRYSTALLINE
Indistinctly crystalline; -- applied to rocks and minerals, whose state of aggregation is so fine that no distinct particles are visible, even under the microscope. - OPPOSITENESS
The quality or state of being opposite. - OPPOSITELY
In a situation to face each other; in an opposite manner or direction; adversely. Winds from all quarters oppositely blow. May. - DISTINCTLY
1. With distinctness; not confusedly; without the blending of one part or thing another; clearly; plainly; as, to see distinctly. 2. With meaning; significantly. Thou dost snore distinctly; There's meaning in thy snores. Shak. Syn. -- Separately; - OPPOSITE
1. Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; -- often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange. 2. Applied to the other of two things which are entirely different; other; as, the opposite sex; the opposite - OPPOSER
One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist; an adversary. - OPPOSITIPETALOUS
Placed in front of a petal. - OPPOSAL
Opposition. Sir T. Herbert. - UNDISTINCTLY
Indistinctly. - SEMICRYSTALLINE
Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter. - HYPOCRYSTALLINE
Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass. - MICROCRYSTALLINE
Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline. - PHANEROCRYSTALLINE
Distinctly crystalline; -- used of rocks. Opposed to Ant: cryptocrystalline. - INDISTINCTLY
In an indistinct manner; not clearly; confusedly; dimly; as, certain ideas are indistinctly comprehended. In its sides it was bounded distinctly, but on its ends confusedly an indistinctly. Sir I. Newton. - HOLOCRYSTALLINE
Completely crystalline; -- said of a rock like granite, all the constituents of which are crystalline. - REOPPOSE
To oppose again.