Definition of Epidotic

1. a. Related to, resembling, or containing epidote; as, an epidotic granite.

Definition of Epidotic

1. Adjective. Related to, resembling, or containing epidote. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Epidotic

1. epidote [adj] - See also: epidote

Lexicographical Neighbors of Epidotic

epididymectomy
epididymides
epididymite
epididymitides
epididymitis
epididymitises
epididymo-orchitis
epididymoplasty
epididymotomy
epididymovasectomy
epididymovasostomy
epidote
epidotes
epidotic (current term)
epidural
epidural abscess
epidural anaesthesia
epidural anaesthetic
epidural anesthesia
epidural block
epidural cavity
epidural haematoma
epidural injection
epidural meningitis
epidural neoplasms
epidural space
epidurally
epidurals

Literary usage of Epidotic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Geology of the City of New York: With Numerous Illustrations and Maps by Louis Pope Gratacap (1909)
"epidotic BEDS Epidote in considerable developments is found in conjunction with the hornblende rocks of the island—seams, ..."

2. A Description of the Shetland Islands: Comprising an Account of Their by Samuel Hibbert (1822)
"In pages 133. and 134. was described a mass of epidotic ... On this conjecture the length of the epidotic ... On the supposition that the epidotic ..."

3. A Reprint of Annual Reports and Other Papers on the Geology of the Virginias by William Barton Rogers (1884)
"East of the tract of epidotic rocks, or more properly, where these become blended with the slates of the eastern belt, several ledges or narrow beds of a ..."

4. Bulletin by Geological Survey (U.S.) (1912)
"Another phase of the quartz monzonite, more local in its development than the feldspathic phase, is the epidotic phase, an epidote- quartz rock or ..."

5. Mineral Resources of Michigan with Statistical Tables of Production and by Michigan, Michigan Geological Survey, Geological and Biological Survey, Michigan Geological Survey Division, United States Bureau of Mines, Geological Survey Division (1915)
"epidotic beds, yellowish green in color, and composed largely of epidote and quartz, are of common occurrence, and several contain native copper. ..."

6. General Index to the Reports of Progress, 1863 to 1884 by Geological Survey of Canada, Donaldson Bogart Dowling (1900)
"epidotic gneiss, occurrence of near Carleton nuck Sound, ... 15 C. epidotic diorite in division B, Hastings Series, Place, Ont., and on Mingan River, Que., ..."

7. Annual Report by Geological Survey of Canada (1876)
"... become very largely characterized by a yellowish-green epidote, and graduate into a rock which may be correctly termed an epidotic hornblende schist. ..."

8. Summary of Progress of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and the Museum by Geological Survey of Great Britain (1907)
"Thus, epidotic grits, similar to those of the ... and epidotic grit; but this tripartite division is only local. ..."

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