Vughy

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Containing vughs, vuggy.

    "Owing to soft slidy country rock at the beginning, and hard vughy quartz in the reef, very great difficulty was experienced in putting down this hole."

Example

More examples

"Owing to soft slidy country rock at the beginning, and hard vughy quartz in the reef, very great difficulty was experienced in putting down this hole."

Etymology

From vugh + -y.

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