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A dark variety of smoky quartz.

A variety of apatite of a greenish blue color.

s. -- Mountain cock (Zoöl.), capercailzie. See Capercailzie. -- Mountain cork (Min.), a variety of asbestus, resembling cork in its texture. -- Mountain crystal. See under Crystal. -- Mountain damson (Bot.), a large tree of the genus Simaruba (S. amarga) growing in the West Indies, which affords a bitter tonic and…

Having multiplicity; having great diversity or variety; of various kinds; diversified; made up of many differing parts; manifold. There is a multifarious artifice in the structure of the meanest animal. Dr. H. More.

With great multiplicity and diversity; with variety of modes and relations.

The quality of being multiform; diversity of forms; variety of appearances in the same thing. Purchas.

embling courses of bricks or stones in squareness and regular arrangement; as, a muriform variety of cellular tissue.

A variety of pyroxene, from the Mussa Alp in Piedmont; diopside.

A variety of sugar, isomeric with sucrose and obtained from certain lichens and fungi. Called also trehalose. [Written also mykose.]

n such a manner as to admit of combination in many different ways, thus producing a great variety of scenes or landscapes.

A variety of diving bell, the lateral as well as vertical motions of which are controlled, by the occupants.

A kind of small turnip, a variety of Brassica campestris. See Brassica. [Writen also naphew.]

A smooth-skinned variety of peach. Spanish nectarine, the plumlike fruit of the West Indian tree Chrysobalanus Icaco; -- also called cocoa plum. it is made into a sweet conserve which a largely exported from Cuba.

An inferior commercial variety of India rubber made up into round masses.

A fibrous variety of brucite.

A prefix meaning new, recent, late; and in chemistry designating specifically that variety of metameric hydrocarbons which, when the name was applied, had been recently classified, and in which at least one carbon atom in connected directly with four other carbon atoms; -- contrasted with normal and iso-; as, neopentan…

al crystals; also elsewhere, in grayish or greenish masses having a greasy luster, as the variety elæolite. It is a silicate of aluminia, soda, and potash.

A grantitoid variety of rhyolite, common in Nevada.

An alloy of nickel, a variety of German silver.

A ferruginous variety of rutile.