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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Fragmentary.
  • adjective Geology Consisting of broken rock, coal, or ore moved from its place of origin.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Consisting of fragments; fragmentarily combined.
  • Same as clastic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Geol.) A fragmentary rock.
  • adjective Fragmentary.
  • adjective (Geol.) Consisting of the pulverized or fragmentary material of rock, as conglomerate, shale, etc.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective geology consisting of fragments
  • noun geology A fragmentary rock.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective consisting of small disconnected parts

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fragment +‎ -al

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