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Word: Schist
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 18th century: from French schiste, via Latin from Greek skhistos ‘split’, from the base of skhizein ‘cleave’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ʃɪst
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a coarse-grained metamorphic rock which consists of layers of different minerals and can be split into thin irregular plates.
Short Definition:coarse-grained metamorphic rock which consists of layers of different minerals
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