granuliform

[Eng. granule, and form.] Petrol. & Min.: Having a granular structure. grăn-u-lite, grăn'-u-lyte, s. [Mod. Lat. gran ul ( um ), and suff. -ite ( Min.) (q. v.).] Petrol.: A mixture of granular orthoclase and more or le quartz. It is sometimes called semi granite. It often contains small garnets. Rutley considers it a metamorphic rock. A variety of it is termed Aplite. Granulite is called also Leptinite. "This granulite or 'semi-granite,' as it is well-called." -Quar. Jour. Geol. Soc., xxxiii. 320. granulose