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Webster 1913 Edition


Variolite

Va′ri-o-lite

,
Noun.
[L.
varius
various +
-lite
: cf. F.
variolite
.]
(Geol.)
A kind of diorite or diabase containing imbedded whitish spherules, which give the rock a spotted appearance.

Webster 1828 Edition


Variolite

VA'RIOLITE

,
Noun.
[L. varius and Gr. stone.]
In mineralogy, a kind of porphyritic rock, in which the imbedded substances are imperfectly crystallized, or are rounded, giving the stone a spotted appearance.
Variolites are fragments of primitive gladular rocks.

Definition 2024


variolite

variolite

English

Noun

variolite (countable and uncountable, plural variolites)

  1. (geology) A kind of diorite or diabase with embedded whitish spherules, which give the rock a spotted appearance.