trachytic

English

Etymology

From trachyte +‎ -ic.

Adjective

trachytic (not comparable)

  1. (geology) Relating to or composed of trachyte.
    • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 166:
      One is overwhelmed by the contemplation of these innumerable sculptures, worked with delicacy and artistic feeling in a hard, intractable, trachytic rock, and all found in one tropical island.

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