Schist

Origin

From L schistos lapis, "the stone that is easy to split", from Greek skhizein, "to split".

Full definition of schist

Noun

1. Any crystalline rock having a foliated structure and hence admitting of ready division into slabs or slates.
• 2012, Amy Schoeman, Skeleton Coast, page iiMillions of years ago the mica schists surrounding the old Brandberg West Mine became folded and concertinaed by enormous horizontal pressures.

Derived terms

• blueschist
• greenschist
• schistous
• schistocity

Anagrams

• stichs