Crossword-Solution: GNEISSY
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| GNEISSY | anagram | YESSING |
We have 2 clues for the answer “GNEISSY”
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| Resembling laminated rock. | 1 answer |
| Granitelike. | 3 answers |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AZEMEC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with GNEISSY (4)
Much olivine is found in the fissures of the gneiss: this feral is very rare in Sikkim, but I have also seen it in the fissures of the White gneissy granite of the surrounding heights.] Above this the valley expands very much, and is stony and desert: stupendous mountains, upwards of 21,000 feet high, rear themselves on all sides, and the desolation and grandeur of the scene are unequalled in my experience.
The ridge is wholly formed of angular blocks of white gneissy granite, split by frost.* [It was not a proper granite, but a highly metamorphic felspathic gneiss, with very little mica; being, I suspect, a gneiss which by metamorphic action was almost remolten into granite: the lamination was obscure, and marked by faint undulating lines of mica; it cleaves at all angles, but most generally along fissures with highly polished undulated black surfaces.
Much olivine is found in the fissures of the gneiss: this feral is very rare in Sikkim, but I have also seen it in the fissures of the White gneissy granite of the surrounding heights.
The ridge is wholly formed of angular blocks of white gneissy granite, split by frost.[240] There was no snow on the pass itself, but deep drifts and glaciers descended in hollows on the north side, to 17,000 feet.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1946–1949).