As nouns the difference between amygdaloid and mandelstein
is that amygdaloid is a variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, especially agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites when the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava while mandelstein is amygdaloid.
As an adjective amygdaloid
is shaped like an almond.
amygdaloid
English
Noun
(
en noun)
A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, especially agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava.
Synonyms
* mandlestone
Derived terms
* amygdaloidal