Pseu"do*morph (?), n. [See Pseudomorphous.]

1.

An irregular or deceptive form.

2. Crystallog.

A pseudomorphous crystal, as a crystal consisting of quartz, but having the cubic form of fluor spar, the fluor crystal having been changed to quartz by a process of substitution.

 

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