"Hypogene" is a word in ENGLISH

alimpúlu n {1} crown, part of the skull in the back where the hair forms a whorl. {2} topmost part …

amatung n large boulder or pile of rocks formed into a boulder found in shallow waters, usually slightly exposed even …

An extinct genus of Bryzoa characteristic of the subcarboniferous rocks. Its form is that of a screw.

Destitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life; anterior to the existence of animal life; …

In Louisiana. A marine term used to denote a bottom of sand, stone, or rock mixed together and rising towards …

Minute acicular or dendritic crystalline forms sometimes observed in glassy volcanic rocks.

One of the divisions of Crinoidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on account of their …

A tuft of long, tough filaments which are formed in a groove of the foot, and issue from between the …

A peculiar toothlike fossil of many forms, found especially in carboniferous rocks. Such fossils are supposed by some to be …

A minute mineral form like those common in glassy volcanic rocks and some slags, not having a definite crystalline outline …

Formed originating on the surface of the earth; -- opposed to hypogene; as, epigene rocks.

Decomposed rock, usually reddish or ferruginous (owing to oxidized pyrites), forming the upper part of a metallic vein.

Partly idiomorphic; -- said of rock a portion only of whose constituents have a distinct crystalline form.

In mining law, rock or min-eralized matter ls “in place" when remain-lng as nature placed it, that is, unsevered from …

In its natural position or place; -- said of a rock or fossil, when found in the situation in which …

Characterized by small, detached points, chiefly composed of mica, less decomposable than the mass of the rock, and forming knots …

Having a slender elongated form, like a lath; -- said of the feldspar of certain igneous rocks, as diabase, as …

The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles …

One of a class of cellular, flowerless plants, (technically called Lichenes), having no distinction of leaf and stem, usually of …

Combining forms fr. Gr. li`qos a stone; -- used chiefly in naming minerals and rocks.