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Facies vs Faces - What's the difference?

facies | faces |

As nouns the difference between facies and faces

is that facies is appearance while faces is plural of lang=en.

As a verb faces is

third-person singular of face.

facies

English

Noun

(-)
  • (plurale tantum) Appearance.
  • *
    • The Chilean Amphijubula'' Schust. (Schuster, 1970a) which has the facies of a small ''Frullania'' and agrees with ''Frullania in leaf insertion and branching, has a nontiered seta with 16 epidermal cell rows surrounding 4 inner rows.
  • (plurale tantum, medicine) Facial features, like an expression or complexion, typical for patients having certain diseases or conditions (e.g. costive facies ).
  • (geology) A body of rock with specified characteristics reflecting the way it was formed.

    • Derived terms

    * biofacies * lithofacies * masked facies ----

    faces

    English

    Noun

    (head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (face)

    • Anagrams

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