It stated that what had previously been described as "self-replication" was a form of crystalline growth.

From where he looked it glistened whitely in the afternoon sunlight, a crystalline growth come to within a dozen li of where they were.

Vast caverns filled with crystalline growths, endless tunnels through which ran conductive fluids, the blazing heart of atomic fires; the brain, the veins, the heart of a planetary being.

It also often looks as if a shell has been "infected" with mold; however, under magnification the mold-like appearance is revealed to be a crystalline growth of salts.

Up to this point I had just accepted the presence of crystalline growths.

Surface reaction of organic compounds or metalorganics and hydrides containing the required chemical elements creates conditions for crystalline growth - epitaxy of materials and compound semiconductors.

Emerging from the inertialess tube station into Syrel, the First Magnate found the misty garden of pallid crystalline growths discomforting.

Cairns-Smith9 has speculated that biological life may have begun as an adjunct to still more primitive life based on crystalline growth.

A man came to Pie's side, his head a cluster of crystalline growths, and laid his hands on the mystif s shoulders, whispering something in its ear and gently tugging it away.