the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Containing, or resembling, quartz; partaking of the nature or qualities of quartz.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Composed of quartz. Quartzose rocks are such as are essentially made up of the mineral quartz. Also quartzous.
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adj. relating to or made of quartz
Word Usage
"Erosion and the linear formation caused by folding mean that the mountains form strings of isolated, elevated land masses of quartzose substrates, similar to islands scattered throughout an archipelago."