Crossword-Solution: BOTRYOIDAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Botryoidal | a. | Having the form of a bunch of grapes; like a cluster of grapes, as a mineral presenting an aggregation of small spherical or spheroidal prominences. |
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| of minerals, occurring in grape-shaped masses | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with BOTRYOIDAL (5)
The fronds occasionally become more and more convex, until they pass into botryoidal masses with their summits fissured; when in this state, they are glossy and of an intense black, so as to resemble some fused metallic substance.
Its darkness varies a little, but the jet blackness of some of the fronds and of the botryoidal masses seems due to the translucency of the successive grey layers.
Near Mercedes, beds of the same nature and apparently of the same age, are associated with compact, white, crystalline limestone, including much botryoidal agate, and singular masses, like porcelain, but really composed of a calcareo-siliceous paste.
But the heavy, true alluvial gold, in great pure masses, mammillary, or botryoidal (like a bunch of grapes) in shape, have assuredly been formed by accretion on some metallic base, from gold salts in solution, probably chloride, but possibly sulphide.
These shells occur at Hartlepool and Sunderland, where the rock assumes an oolitic and botryoidal character.