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Viminal vs Vicinal - What's the difference?

viminal | vicinal |

As adjectives the difference between viminal and vicinal

is that viminal is of or pertaining to twigs; consisting of twigs; producing twigs while vicinal is of or pertaining to a neighborhood; neighboring.

viminal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (rare) Of or pertaining to twigs; consisting of twigs; producing twigs.
  • The plantation was then a model of beauty and vigorous health, clothed in a dense viminal mass — Francis George Heath.
    (Webster 1913)

    vicinal

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or pertaining to a neighborhood ; neighboring.
  • (chemistry) Describing identical atoms or groups attached to nearby (especially adjacent) atoms in a molecule.
  • (mineralogy) Describing subordinate planes on a crystal, which are very near to the fundamental planes in angles, and sometimes take their place.
  • See also

    * geminal ----