Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun chert

1 sense of chert

Sense 1
chert -- (variety of silica containing microcrystalline quartz)
       => silica, silicon oxide, silicon dioxide -- (a white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2); various forms occur widely in the earth's crust as quartz or cristobalite or tridymite or lechatelierite)