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Definition: PSEUDOMORPH |
PSEUDOMORPHNoun1. A pseudomorphous crystal, as a crystal consisting of quartz, but having the cubic form of fluor spar, the fluor crystal having been changed to quartz by a process of substitution. 2. An irregular or deceptive form. |
Note: Pseudomorph \Pseu"do*morph\, noun. [See Pseudomorphous.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Biology & Biotechnology | A term used to indicate a body which is the product of substitution of organic or mineral material by other substances with conservation of primary form. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A mineral sample with the external crystal form of one mineral and the internal chemistry of another; e.g., cubes of geothite after pyrite resulting from oxidation of the ferrous sulfide to ferric oxyhydroxide.CF:paramorph. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: PSEUDOMORPH |
| English words defined with "PSEUDOMORPH": Gieseckite ♦ Martite ♦ Paramorph. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PSEUDOMORPH": aglaite. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
after crystal halite pseudomorph | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PSEUDOMORPH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | pseudomorf. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | pseudomorphe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Pseudomorph, Afterkristall. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ψευδόμορφος. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | pseudomorfo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eudomorphpsay pseudomorfo. (various references) pseudomorfo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PSEUDOMORPH": pseudomorphic, pseudomorphism, pseudomorphisms, pseudomorphous, pseudomorphs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "PSEUDOMORPH" (pronounced 'Pseu"do*morph'): Allelomorph, Allomorph, gynandromorph, lagomorph, Myomorph, Neomorph, Pantamorph, Paramorph, Perimorph, Polymorph. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-h-m-o-o-p-p-r-s-u" | |
-3 letters: dormouse, popedoms, proposed, purposed. | |
-4 letters: dumpers, hoopers, hoppers, humored, moppers, morphed, morphos, oosperm, opposed, opposer, pompous, popedom, propose, pumpers, purpose, pushrod, repumps, shopped, shopper, spoored, supremo, uphroes, uropods. | |
-5 letters: demurs, dopers, dorsum, douser, droops, drupes, dumper, duomos, dupers, ephods, ephors, homers, hooped, hooper, hopers, hopped, hopper, hordes, horsed, housed, houser, humors, humped, mohurs. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-h-m-o-o-p-p-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: pseudomorphs. | |
+2 letters: pseudomorphic. | |
+3 letters: pseudomorphism, pseudomorphous. | |
+4 letters: pseudomorphisms. | |
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