microcline
Meaning of microcline
noun
a green, pink, or brown crystalline mineral consisting of potassium-rich feldspar, characteristic of granite and pegmatites.
mid 19th century: from German Microklin, from Greek mikros ‘small’ + klinein ‘to lean’ (because its angle of cleavage differs only slightly from 90 degrees).
Information about microcline
- It is a name.
- The plural form of microcline is: microclines.
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Hyphenation of microcline
mi-cro-cline
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- microcline is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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