Min. [f. L. axi-s + Gr. λίθος stone: see -LITE.] (See quot.) Axiolitic a., of or pertaining to axiolites.
1879. Rutley, Stud. Rocks, xi. 184. Termed axiolites by Zirkel … elongated lenticular and curved zones of brownish glass forming the envelope of a smaller corresponding mass of paler vitreous matter, in which incipient crystallisation or fibrous structure trends at right angles to the inner surfaces of the envelope towards a longitudinal median line. Ibid. The axiolitic structure visible in a rhyolite.
