hornfels

Meaning of hornfels

noun

Any of a series of contact metamorphic rocks that have been baked and indurated by the heat of intrusive igneous masses and rendered massive, hard, splintery, and in some cases exceedingly tough and durable.

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Hyphenation of hornfels

horn-fels

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • hornfels is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

hornfels synonyms

Meaning hornstone:

hornstone

Words that rhyme with hornfels

Fels, fels, falafels, felafels, reistafels, rijstafels, rijsttafels, olivinefels, refels, duffels, keffels, schutzstaffels, Braunfels, farfels, schillerfels, topazfels

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