D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Gneissoid

/(-soid)/ · Gneis·soid · IPA
01 a. Resembling gneiss; having some of the characteristics of gneiss; -- applied to rocks of an intermediate character between granite and gneis…
  1. 1.
    Resembling gneiss; having some of the characteristics of gneiss; -- applied to rocks of an intermediate character between granite and gneiss, or mica slate and gneiss.