Meanings
adjectivegneissitic (comparative more gneissitic, superlative most gneissitic)
comparative more gneissitic · superlative most gneissitic
- geographyExhibiting characteristics of or containing gneiss.
They have encountered it in dryland forests […] in soil pockets on gneissitic granite outcrops […] and in moist sand near freshwater ponds among vegetation characterized by the presence of Calamus.
1984, Harold Moldenke, Additional notes on the genus Gmelina II, page 488
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