subgranular
adjEtymology From sub- + granular.
1
Somewhat or finely granular.
- They present the same glassy brilliancy of fracture, the same gradation from compact, through subgranular and granular, to sandy structure, the same small crystals of decomposing felspar disseminated throughout, and occasionally the same traces of lines of stratification, which characterise the quartz rock of the Lower Lickey and Caer Caradoc.1819, Transactions of the Geological Society, Volume the Fifth, Part the First, page 526:
- Derived terms
- subgranularly