sagenitic
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sagenitic (comparative more sagenitic, superlative most sagenitic)
- (mineralogy) Resembling sagenite; applied to quartz when containing acicular crystals of other minerals, most commonly rutile.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sagenitic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)