polymict
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Containing multiple types of rock.
noun
A breccia containing multiple types of rock.
Example Sentences
- "It is pointed out that the breccias among stony meteorites are mainly of two kinds : (a) breccias in which the enclosed fragments are of the same material as the surrounding principal mass of the stone: it is proposed to call this kind of breccias “monomict breccias,” and (b) breccias in which the enclosed fragments are of a foreign material as compared with the surrounding principal mass of the stone: it is proposed to call these breccias “polymict breccias.”"
- "The ‘monomict’ meteorites are samples of a single lithology while the polymict meteorites are those containing two or more lithologies."