Crossword-Solution: PORCELLANOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Porcellanous | a. | Porcelaneous. |
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| Like porcelain | 6 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
MONIEOT
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A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with PORCELLANOUS (5)
The outer wall in the present species is like finest unglazed china, softly smooth, and yet not polished, often absolutely white, with porcellanous fracture.
Berger, "presents a dark brown crystalline limestone, the crystals running in flakes as large as those of coarse primitive (_metamorphic_) limestone; the next state is saccharine, then fine grained and arenaceous; a compact variety, having a porcellanous aspect and a bluish-grey colour, succeeds: this, towards the outer edge, becomes yellowish-white, and insensibly graduates into the unaltered chalk.
The marine shells are, as we have seen, of cemented particles, or calcareous, glassy, and regularly perforated, or again calcareous, but porcellanous and rarely perforate.
The porcellanous genera, however, form a compact group, the replacement of the shell by silica in forms dwelling in the red clay of the ocean abysses, where calcium carbonate is soluble, not really making any difficulty.
The microspheric forms attain to a greater size when adult than the megalospheric; and in _Orbitolites_ the microsphere has a straight outlet, orthostyle, instead of the deflected camptostyle one, so general in porcellanous types; and the spiral succession is continued for more turns before reaching the fan-shaped and finally cyclic stage.