clastic
made of fragments or relating to breaking
Root
- clast: break
Other words with the clast root
- clast: something that breaks or is broken
- iconoclast: breaker of images or cherished beliefs
- iconoclastic: attacking cherished beliefs or institutions
- pyroclastic: made of hot volcanic fragments
Clastic means made of broken fragments or related to breaking.
The cliff contained clastic rock formed from older pieces.
Clastic is the adjective form of the break-piece family. It is technical in geology, but the mental picture is easy: fragments, pieces, broken material.