phyllosilicate

English

Etymology

phyllo- +‎ silicate

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: phyllo‧sili‧cate

Noun

phyllosilicate (usually uncountable, plural phyllosilicates)

1. (mineralogy) Any silicate mineral having a crystal structure of parallel sheets of silicate tetrahedra.

   Synonym: sheet silicate

Hypernyms

• silicate

Translations

type of silicate

• Dutch: fyllosilicaat n
• Finnish: fyllosilikaatti
• Spanish: filosilicato (es) m

References

• phyllosilicate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia