gneissoid ( g silent)

[Ger., ., gnei , and Gr. eidos, form, appearance.] Geol.: Resembling gnei . "The unconformable contact of the Lower Silurian gold-bearing strata with the underlying gnei oid and schistose series."- Hind , in Quar. Jour. Geol. Soc ., xxvi. 474. gneis-sōse ( g silent), a. [Ger., ., gnei Eng., ., suff. -ose (q. v.).] Geol .: Properly, abounding in gnei ; but used also simply for gnei ic (q. v.). "The Eastern gnei ose rocks of Sutherland and Ro ." -Murchison in Quar. Jour. Geol. Soc., xvi., p. 237.