zircon-likehttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zircon-like_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezircon-like, adj.
Revised 2021

zircon-likeadjective

Mineralogy.
  1. 1857–
    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

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

zircon, n. was revised in March 2021.