xenomorphic

xenomorphic
xenomorphically, adv.
/zen'euh mawr"fik, zee'neuh-/, adj.
1. Also, allotriomorphic. Petrog. noting or pertaining to a mineral grain that does not have its characteristic crystalline form but has a form impressed on it by surrounding grains; anhedral.
2. in an unusual form; having a strange form.
[1885-90; XENO- + -MORPHIC]

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