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