Druse

Quick meaning: Druse is a noun meaning (mineralogy) A rock surface with a crust of tiny crystals.

Meaning

(mineralogy) A rock surface with a crust of tiny crystals.

More Meanings

1. (botany) An aggregation of calcium oxalate crystals found in certain plants.
2. (ophthalmology) A tiny yellow or white accumulation of extracellular material that builds up in Bruch's membrane of the eye.

Example Sentences

Occurs as a fine coating over the minerals in druses or cavities in the granite.

Nontronite, a variety of chloropal occurs as a light yellow powder in druses of the North Conway granite (99, p. 312).

A lot of druses are found in the vein, and euhedral crystals of quartz, marcasite and sphalerite are observed as druse minerals.

Word Forms

• druses
• drusen

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include duricrust, cryptocrystalline, lodranite, crystalloclast, dradge, chromdravite.

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