[f. CRYSTALLO- + Gr. γένεσις birth, origination.] The origination or natural formation of crystals (as a department of scientific investigation). So Crystallogenic a. [see -GEN, -GENIC], crystal-forming, producing crystallization. Crystallogenical a., relating to the formation of crystals. Crystallogeny, the production or formation of crystals (scientifically considered).
1879. Rutley, Stud. Rocks, x. 161. A key to the important subject of crystallogenesis.
1837. Dana, Min. (1844), 71. What is this crystallogenic attraction? Ibid., 71. Crystallogeny or the formation of crystals may be treated under two heads.
1881. Nature, XXIII. 398. Between these two kinds of crystallogenic action there are many gradations.
