TETZONTLI, porous amygdaloid lava, a stone much used for building in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference

A nodule of amygdaloid, a coarse pebble enveloped in a whitish semi-crystalline paste, lies on the table before me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873] Reference

She listens as to a fairy tale, and then I tell her of the stellar crystals concealed in the rough crust of the amygdaloid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873] Reference

Florida levels, still lingers; and presently, amid bits of syenite, volcanic tuff and scoria, she has found this nodule of amygdaloid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873] Reference

This amygdaloid with analami and mesotype contains crystals, which the water gradually dissolves, leaving the rock with a worm-eaten appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference

Excavated in the same amygdaloid rock, the temples and monasteries differ in aspect from those of Ajunta, on account of the form of the mountain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888] Reference

The gray matter of the caudate nucleus bends upon itself, and its other end is the amygdaloid nucleus ( "almond-shaped," again because of its shape).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

Teneriffe xeolite in an amygdaloid which covers the basalts of La.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference

Observed amygdaloid under foot among the granite, and sandstone boulders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers] Reference

The amygdaloid has very long pores, like the superior strata of the lavas of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference

This solid nucleus is covered by a kind of porous amygdaloid, called tetzontli.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History An address, delivered before the New York Historical Society, at its forty-second anniversary, 17th November 1846] Reference

It contains balls of mandelstein, or amygdaloid, eight or ten inches in diameter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

The greyish blue amygdaloid contains fendilated crystals of pyroxene and mesotype.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference

The clay which separates these amygdaloid concretions arises from the decomposition of their crust.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

I have never yet seen a rock in which this earth was so abundant as in the amygdaloid of Scuir More.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland] Reference

Granite and mica slate are shaken as well as limestone and sandstone, or as trachyte and amygdaloid.    From Wordnik.com.  [COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1] Reference

Rollins B, King B (2000) Amygdala-lesion obesity: what is the role of the various amygdaloid nuclei?.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Other fibers are said to pass in the opposite direction from the amygdaloid nucleus to the thalamus.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 4e. Composition and Central Connections of the Spinal Nerves] Reference

I was the of nephritis that exchangeability amygdaloid of stinking and big with my parsley on, but off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

Mr. Collins found the bank composed of amygdaloid sand, decomposed rock and sandstone, with many traces of iron.    From Wordnik.com.  [Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life] Reference

The amygdaloid nucleus and the tænia semicircularis (stria terminalis) probably belong to the central olfactory apparatus.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 4e. Composition and Central Connections of the Spinal Nerves] Reference

I place pyroxenic amygdaloid and phonolite (porphyrschiefer) at the end of the formations of Venezuela, not as being the only rocks which.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference

William P. said, "there's cuneiform for wedge-shaped, amygdaloid for almond-shaped, stellate for star-shaped i learned something new today!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Visual Thesaurus : Online Edition] Reference

In the other solution of the problem, the masses of phonolite, amygdaloid, and grunstein, which are found in the south of the ravine of Piedras.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference

It is surrounded by pyroxenic amygdaloid; it would no doubt be seen below, issuing immediately from gneiss-granite, like the phonolite of Biliner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference

Together with the cavities formed by amygdaloid chambers and crevices caused by erosion, they give the cliffs the appearance of a huge, irregular honeycomb.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Delight Makers] Reference

Remember that unsoaked peas are hard, forcible, and surcharged with a nitrogenous amygdaloid that is in reality what chemical science calls putrate of lead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Further Foolishness] Reference

A quarry in the neighbourhood, of a red porous amygdaloid, tetzontli, was opened, and a light, brittle stone drawn from it, and wrought with little difficulty.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a Preliminary View of Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortes] Reference

It rings upon rocks of amygdaloid and porphyry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rifle Rangers] Reference

4) Amygdala or amygdaloid nucleus is called window of the limbic system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

"amygdaloid" shape.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia] Reference