phyllosilicate

== English == === Etymology === From phyllo- + silicate. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: phyllo‧sili‧cate === Noun === phyllosilicate (usually uncountable, plural phyllosilicates) (mineralogy) Any silicate mineral having a crystal structure of parallel sheets of silicate tetrahedra. Synonym: sheet silicate ==== Hypernyms ==== silicate ==== Translations ==== === References === phyllosilicate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia