melatope (English, noun)
expansion: melatope (plural melatopes)
Senses:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: microscopy
glosses: An eye shape of concentric coloured optical fringes seen on a conoscopic interference pattern surrounding an optical axis. For biaxial minerals there are a pair of circles, like eyes.
Forms:
form: melatopes
tags: plural