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xenoblast
xenoblast n. 
/ˈzɛnə(ʊ)blast/, /ˈzinəˌblæst/ [ < German xenoblast (F. Becke 1903, in Compt. Rend. IX. Congr. Géol. Internat. (1904) II. 564): see -blast comb. form] Geology (see quot. 1920).
Brit. /ˈzɛnə(ʊ)blɑːst/
, /ˈzɛnə(ʊ)blɑːst//ˈzɛnə(ʊ)blast/U.S. /ˈzɛnəˌblæst/
, /ˈzɛnəˌblæst//ˈzinəˌblæst/ΘΚΠ
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xenoblast1920
1920 A. Holmes Nomencl. Petrol. 241 xenoblast, a term applied to crystals which have grown during metamorphism without the development of their characteristic faces.
1962 T. F. W. Barth Theoret. Petrol. (ed. 2) 288 The majority of the minerals in metamorphic rocks are irregular in outline, xenoblasts; but some minerals are frequently bounded by their own crystal faces, idioblasts.
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