nemaline

English

Etymology

Latin nema (“thread”).

Adjective

nemaline (comparative more nemaline, superlative most nemaline)

(mineralogy) Having the form of threads; fibrous.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “nemaline”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Limenean, enamelin