close-grained
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It is based largely on a close-grained analysis of masses of sea surface and air temperature data collected over the century.
From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2010
The wood they found was dense and close-grained, unlike the spongy grain of the younger, forced-growth trees that are planted today.
From Time Magazine Archive
In twelve books she has tried both to give a close-grained structure of regional manners and to trace the doings of the English merchant class from its ferment under Cromwell to its troubles under Attlee.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ganister, Gannister, gan′is-ter, n. a hard, close-grained siliceous stone, which often forms the stratum that underlies a coal-seam.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Turkey oilstone is a close-grained bluish stone 653 containing from 70 to 75% of silica in a state of very fine division, intimately blended with about 20 to 25% of calcite.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various
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