radiolitic

adjective

ra·​di·​o·​lit·​ic

¦rādēō¦litik

: of or relating to a texture of igneous rock that is not truly spherulitic but that shows only sectors of spherulites or radial fanlike groupings of needles

Word History

Etymology

International Scientific Vocabulary radio- + -litic

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