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Andesite
noun · 78% connection
An eruptive rock allied to trachyte, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar, with pyroxene, hornblende, or hypersthene.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, pyroxene, valley, fassa, tyrol.
Aphanite
noun · 78% connection
A very compact, dark-colored /ock, consisting of hornblende, or pyroxene, and feldspar, but neither of them in perceptible grains.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, pyroxene, valley, fassa, tyrol.
Asbestos
noun · 78% connection
A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, pyroxene, valley, fassa, tyrol.
Augite
noun · 78% connection
A variety of pyroxene, usually of a black or dark green color, occurring in igneous rocks, such as basalt; -- also used instead of the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, pyroxene, valley, fassa, tyrol.
Babingtonite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral occurring in triclinic crystals approaching pyroxene in angle, and of a greenish black color. It is a silicate of iron, mang…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, pyroxene, valley, fassa, tyrol.
Beryl
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, pyroxene, valley, fassa, tyrol.
Bronzite
noun · 78% connection
A variety of enstatite, often having a bronzelike luster. It is a silicate of magnesia and iron, of the pyroxene family.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, pyroxene, valley, fassa, tyrol.
Caada
noun · 78% connection
A small caon; a narrow valley or glen; also, but less frequently, an open valley.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, pyroxene, valley, fassa, tyrol.
Cacholong
noun · 78% connection
An opaque or milk-white chalcedony, a variety of quartz; also, a similar variety of opal.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, pyroxene, valley, fassa, tyrol.
Chain of mountains
noun · 78% connection
a series of hills or mountains; "the valley was between two ranges of hills"; "the plains lay just beyond the mountain range"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, pyroxene, valley, fassa, tyrol.
Coccolite
noun · 78% connection
A granular variety of pyroxene, green or white in color.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, pyroxene, valley, fassa, tyrol.
Corundum
noun · 78% connection
The earth alumina, as found native in a crystalline state, including sapphire, which is the fine blue variety; the oriental ruby, or r…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, pyroxene, valley, fassa, tyrol.
Diabase
noun · 78% connection
A basic, dark-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, pyroxene, valley, fassa, tyrol.
Diallage
noun · 78% connection
A dark green or bronze-colored laminated variety of pyroxene, common in certain igneous rocks.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, pyroxene, valley, fassa, tyrol.
Diopside
noun · 78% connection
A crystallized variety of pyroxene, of a clear, grayish green color; mussite.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, pyroxene, valley, fassa, tyrol.
Dolerite
noun · 78% connection
A dark-colored, basic, igneous rock, composed essentially of pyroxene and a triclinic feldspar with magnetic iron. By many authors it…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, pyroxene, valley, fassa, tyrol.
Enstatite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of the pyroxene group, orthorhombic in crystallization; often fibrous and massive; color grayish white or greenish. It is a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, pyroxene, valley, fassa, tyrol.
Gabbro
noun · 78% connection
A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now generally used for a coar…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, pyroxene, valley, fassa, tyrol.
