leucitoid

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English

Etymology

From leucite +‎ -oid.

Noun

leucitoid (plural leucitoids)

  1. (crystallography) The trapezohedron or tetragonal trisoctahedron, the form of the mineral leucite.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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