phaneritic

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Pertaining to phanerites, igneous rocks composed of macroscopic mineral crystals (coarse grains large enough to be visible to the naked eye).

Similar words

phaneric phaneromeric aphanitic phanerocrystalline aphaniphyric porphyritic phanerite granophyric xenomorphic glomeroporphyritic

Often followed by

texture rocks rock igneous textures