anorthitic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Composed of or resembling anorthite.
Example Sentences
- "Next followed a period of activity in which basic rocks were produced by submarine eruptions—lavas and scoriae of anorthitic character, palagonitic tuffs, and basaltic ashes; and finally from the crater, which must have been a vast lake of fire like those in the Sandwich Islands, poured forth quiet streams of basaltic lavas."
Etymology
From anorthite + -ic.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more anorthitic (comparative)
most anorthitic (superlative)