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A mineral (as a piece of quartz) having the characteristic outward form of another species (as the cubic form of fluorite) or of some object (as a shell).

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  • It is then called a pseudomorph, which is a term applied to any mineral which, instead of having the form it should possess, shows the form of something which has...
  • So would you consider mineral replacement like a malachite pseudomorph after calcite to fit the preference to photographs that depict “invasive species.”
  • Hawksnest, over beyond, I noted, had its pseudomorph too; a newspaper proprietor of the type that hustles along with stolen ideas from one loud sink-or-swim enterprise...
  • Powellite pseudomorph of Molybdenite
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