trachytic

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adjective

Relating to or composed of trachyte.

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Meanings

adjectivetrachytic (not comparable)
  1. not comparablegeographyRelating to or composed of trachyte.

    One is overwhelmed by the contemplation of these innumerable sculptures, worked with delicacy and artistic feeling in a hard, intractable, trachytic rock, and all found in one tropical island.

    1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 166

Origin

From trachyte + -ic.

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Translations

French trachytique
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APA

trachytic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trachytic

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“trachytic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trachytic. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “trachytic,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trachytic.

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