Spherulite

What do we mean by spherulite?

A small, usually spheroidal body consisting of radiating crystals, found in obsidian and other glassy lava rocks. noun

A vitreous globule, such as those of which perlite is made up, having a more or loss perfectly developed concentric and at the same time decidedly radiating fibrous structure. The highly silicious volcanic rocks not unfrequently have a spherulitic structure. noun

Same as radiolite, 2. noun

A minute spherical crystalline body having a radiated structure, observed in some vitreous volcanic rocks, as obsidian and pearlstone. noun

A minute spherical crystalline body having a radiated structure, observed in some vitreous volcanic rocks, as obsidian and pearlstone. noun

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Words that are spelled similarly to spherulite:
spherulite, spherulate, sphaerulite, spherule, spherulitic, spherulites, spherality.

Words that rhyme with spherulite:
aerolite, cerolite, kerolite, sperrylite, feral light, hair alight, sterile light.

Adjectives that are often used to describe spherulite:
large, single, deformed, dimensional, banded, positive, ringed, central, same, crystalline, isolated, individual, entire, undeformed, average, whole.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective spherulite:
size, growth, formation, structure, rates, rate, radius, diameter, sizes, morphology, deformation, boundary, texture, surface, form, development, samples, nucleation, birefringence, sectors, breakdown, lamellae.

Consonant match to spherulite:
sphaerulite.

Words that sound like spherulite:
spheral, spherocyte, socialite, see the light, spherule, sphereoid, cereal oat, sterilize, cirillo, sarah lee, sara lee, cyrilla, fairy light, satellite, starlight, sattelite, cyril, star light, searchlight, spheroid, serialize, sattilite, sorrily, starlite, sodalite, satellit, stellite, search light, see right, serialise, searight, seawright, spirula, seriate, seen the light.