peritomous

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English

Etymology

From peri- +‎ -tomous.

Adjective

peritomous (comparative more peritomous, superlative most peritomous)

  1. (mineralogy) Cleaving in more than one direction, parallel to the axis, the faces all being similar.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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