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crystall(o)-

A crystal or crystals.

Latin crystallum, crystal, from Greek krustallos, ice, crystal.

Crystallography is the branch of science concerned with the structure and properties of crystals; metamorphic rocks can have a crystalloblastic structure (Greek blastos, germ, sprout) caused by crystals grown in the solid medium; the protein crystallin is present in the lens of the eye.

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