mylonite

Meaning of mylonite

noun
  1. a fine-grained metamorphic rock, typically banded, resulting from the grinding or crushing of other rocks.
    the mylonites occur in a complex zone

late 19th century: from Greek mulōn ‘mill’ + -ite1.

Information about mylonite

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of mylonite is: mylonites.
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Hyphenation of mylonite

my-lonite

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • mylonite is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with mylonite

Nite, nite, Ammanite, Ananite, Antidicomarianite, Anzanite, Balkanite, Bardesanite, Bryanite, Buchanite, Buchmanite, Canaanite, Danite, Dedanite, Ganite, Haldanite, Lamanite, Lihyanite, Macmillanite, Manhattanite, Michiganite, Midianite, Newmanite, Ranite, Reaganite, Rellyanite, Romanite, Tanite, Temanite, Zervanite, albanite, alboranite, allanite, antidicomarianite, aphanite, arcanite, astrakanite, auganite, balanite, barytostrontianite, basanite, bassanite, berzelianite, beudanite, borolanite, braccianite, brazilianite, canaanite, ceylanite, chalcophanite

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