zircon-like, adj.

zircon-like
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Revised 2021

# zircon-likeadjective

## Factsheet

### What does the adjective zircon-like mean?

There is one meaning in OED's entry for the adjective zircon-like. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.

### Where does the adjective zircon-like come from?

Earliest known use

1850s

The earliest known use of the adjective zircon-like is in the 1850s.

OED's earliest evidence for zircon-like is from 1857, in the writing of D. Forbes.

### Nearby entries

1. zircon, n. 1794–
2. zirconate, n. 1820–
3. zircon blue, n. & adj. 1928–
4. zircon earth, n. 1794–
5. zirconia, n. 1794–
6. zirconian, adj. 1802–
7. zirconic, adj. 1804–
8. zirconite, n. 1806–
9. zirconitic, adj. 1883–
10. zirconium, n. 1808–
11. zircon-like, adj.1857–
12. zircono-, comb. form
13. zirconolite, n. 1957–
14. zircon-syenite, n. 1813–
15. zirconyl, n. 1887–
16. zirkelite, n. 1895–
17. zit, n. 1912–
18. zit cream, n. 1968–
19. zitella, n. a1660–
20. zit-face, n. 1974–
21. zit-faced, adj. 1971–

## Meaning & use

Mineralogy.

1. 1857–
   See zircon n.
   Stressed as ˈzircon-like.
   1. 1857

      > This radial development occurs also..in the following minerals peculiar to the Zircon syenite of Brevig, as Thorite, Tritomite, Orangite, and a zircon-like mineral not yet analysed.

      D. Forbes in Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal vol. 6 113
   2. 2004

      > The behaviour of zircon-like heavy minerals is a more complex issue.

      D. Garcia et al. in P. Joseph & S. A. Lomas, Deep-water Sedimentation Alpine Basin SE France 360/1
   minerals

Originally published as part of the entry for zircon, n.

zircon, n. was revised in March 2021.