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Indian wheat, granulated but not pulverized; a kind of semolina. [Written also soojee.]

A granular, crystalline, ingeous rock composed of orthoclase and hornblende, the latter often replaced or accompanied by pyroxene or mica. Syenite sometimes contains nephelite (elæolite) or leucite, and is then called nephelite (elæolite) syenite or leucite syenite.

oliated masses. It is hydrous silicate of magnesia. Steatite, or soapstone, is a compact granular variety. Indurated talc, an impure, slaty talc, with a nearly compact texture, and greater hardness than common talc; -- called also talc slate.

A coarsely granular substance obtained by heating, and thus partly changing, the moistened starch obtained from the roots of the cassava. It is much used in puddings and as a thickening for soups. See Cassava.

Granular conjunctivitis due to a specific micrococcus. -- Tra*chom"a*tous (#), a.

A scaly granular variety of anhydrite of a grayish white color, used for ornamental purposes.

um carbonate occurring in white or gray six-sided twin crystals, and also in columnar or granular masses.