of, relating to, resembling, or having the nature of glass; vitreous
vitric in American English
(ˈvɪtrɪk)
adjective
of, having the nature of, or like glass
Word origin
< L vitrum, glass + -ic
vitric in American English
(ˈvɪtrɪk)
adjective
1.
of or pertaining to glass
2.
of the nature of or resembling glass
Word origin
[‹ L vitr(um) glass + -ic]-ic is a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally inGreek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses“having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the basenoun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic)
Examples of 'vitric' in a sentence
vitric
The studied tuffs samples are mainly represented by vitric and vitric crystal varieties.
Horea Bedelean, Andrada Maicaneanu, Silvia Burca, Maria Stanca 2010, 'Investigations on some zeolitic volcanic tuffs from Cluj County (Romania), used forzinc ions removal from aqueous solution', Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai: Geologiahttp://scholarcommons.usf.edu/geologia/vol55/iss1/art2/. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Feldspathic tuff and pumice tuff are crystal vitric tuff due to more abundant feldspar, quartz, and amphibole than volcanic glass.
Sri Mulyaningsih 2016, 'Volcanostratigraphic Sequences of Kebo-Butak Formation at Bayat Geological Field Complex,Central Java Province and Yogyakarta Special Province, Indonesia', Indonesian Journal on Geosciencehttps://ijog.geologi.esdm.go.id/index.php/IJOG/article/view/236. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)