schist

About 0.57 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Any of a variety of coarse-grained crystalline metamorphic rocks with a foliated structure that allows easy division into slabs or slates.

Similar words

talcose sericite psammitic hornblende talc garnetiferous kyanite tremolite mica chlorite

Often followed by

and is of in with belt or are from

Word family

schists