The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trachytic \Tra*chyt"ic\, a. [Cf. F. trachytique.] Of, pertaining to, or resembling, trachyte.
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a. of or relating to trachyte
Usage examples of "trachytic".
The outbursts of porphyry and trachytic domes, so characteristic of the high crests of the Cordilleras, impart a physiognomy quite distinct from that presented by the mountains of Europe.
Chimborazo is very likely not a solid mountain: trachytic volcanoes are supposed to be full of cavities.
They were imbedded in the middle of an unstratified cliff, four hundred feet high, of very compact silt or trachytic clay, free from stones, and resting on a hard quartzoze sandstone.
CHAPTER X A MOMENTOUS INTERVIEW AN unfathomable gulf twenty-five miles long, and twenty miles broad was produced, but long before historic times, by the falling in of caverns among the trachytic lavas of the center of the island.
It is now over seventeen thousand feet high, and is one of the most Alpine of the Quitonian volcanoes, having sharp pinnacles instead of the smooth trachytic domes--usually double domes--so characteristic of the Andean summits.