Definitions for conchoidal

conchoidal con·choi·dal

Spelling: [kong-koid-l]
IPA: /kɒŋˈkɔɪd l/

Conchoidal is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 396 anagrams from letters in conchoidal (accdhilnoo).

Definitions for conchoidal

adjective

  1. noting a shell-like fracture form produced on certain minerals by a blow.

Origin of conchoidal

First recorded in 1660-70; conchoid + -al1

Examples for conchoidal

When of good quality it is too hard to be scratched by the nail, has a conchoidal fracture, and a sp.

Bulb of Percussion—a bulb resulting from a conchoidal fracture of stone.

I noticed some conchoidal hollows more than a foot in diameter.

The paste is very fine 327 grained, and breaks with a conchoidal fracture.

In colour they vary from ash-grey to black, and their fracture is conchoidal.

There is an imperfect cleavage parallel to the basal pinacoid, and the fracture is conchoidal.

It has a conchoidal fracture, and is without smell or taste.

Flint breaks with what is called a conchoidal fracture, as do many other substances, such as glass.

Their fracture is conchoidal, with hmatitic (iron-ore pimpled) surface.

The ware is nearly always well baked and hard, breaking with a saccharoidal, rarely with a conchoidal, fracture.

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