Crossword-Solution: SACCHAROID
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Saccharoid | a. | Alt. of Saccharoidal |
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| like loaf sugar in texture | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
OEARCN
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with SACCHAROID (5)
Any limestone which is sufficiently hard to take a fine polish is called _marble._ Many of these are fossiliferous; but statuary marble, which is also called saccharoid limestone, as having a texture resembling that of loaf-sugar, is devoid of fossils, and is in many cases a member of the metamorphic series.
Paul de Fenouillet, the chalky limestone becomes more crystalline and saccharoid as it approaches the granite, and loses all trace of the fossils which it previously contained in abundance.
Along the water to which it gives exit, and which is abundant, the usual Cyperaceae, Junceae, Gnaphalium, Potentilla, and Epilobium occur as at Cabul; the place is chiefly remarkable for two or three Saccharoid grasses, Stipa common, Polypogon, Donax, Dracocephala of Quettah and the Bolan pass, Spiraea, Typha, young Tamarisks.
Some members of this lower tertiary formation in the central Alps, including even the superior strata called _flysch_, have been converted into crystalline rocks, and changed into saccharoid marble, quartz, rock, and mica-schist.[206-A] EOCENE STRATA IN THE UNITED STATES.
Among the fragments which abound in the tufaceous breccias of Somma, none are more common than a saccharoid dolomite, supposed to have been derived from an ordinary limestone altered by heat and volcanic vapours.