Xenobiotic
a chemical or substance that is foreign to an organism or biological system.
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- Xenoblast
a crystal that forms in metamorphic rock and gets its outline from neighboring crystals. xen-blast (zěn’ə-blāst’, zē’nə-) a mineral that has not developed its characteristic crystalline faces and that has formed in a rock that has undergone metamorphism.
- Xenoblastic
a crystal that forms in metamorphic rock and gets its outline from neighboring crystals. xen-blast (zěn’ə-blāst’, zē’nə-) a mineral that has not developed its characteristic crystalline faces and that has formed in a rock that has undergone metamorphism.
- Xenocrates
396–314 b.c, greek philosopher. historical examples an enquiry concerning human understanding david hume the history of prost-tution william w. sanger plutarch’s morals plutarch the history of sandford and merton thomas day pagan origin of partialist doctrines john claudius pitrat encyclopaedia britannica, 11th edition, volume 2, slice 5 various encyclopaedia britannica, 11th edition, volume 9, slice […]
- Xenocryst
a rock or crystal engulfed by magma and retained as an inclusion in the resulting igneous rock. noun a crystal included within an igneous rock as the magma cooled but not formed from it xenocryst (zěn’ə-krĭst’, zē’nə-) a crystal foreign to the igneous rock in which it occurs. xenocrysts usually form during metamorphism. compare xenolith.
- Xenocurrency
currency circulating or traded in money markets of countries outside its country of issue.