paramorphic (paramorfik)

[ This type of crystal [brookite] is the one which most frequently shows the paramorphic change to rutile. Amer . Jour . Sci ., 3d ser., XXXII. 315. paramorphine (par-a-môr'fin), n. Same as thebain . paramour molecular structure of a mineral without alteration of external form or chemical constitution: a variety of pseudomorphism. See paramorph and pseudomorphism.