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Adularia
noun · 78% connection
A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: triclinic, feldspar, note.
Amazon stone
noun · 78% connection
A variety of feldspar, having a verdigris-green color.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: triclinic, feldspar, note.
Andesine
noun · 78% connection
A kind of triclinic feldspar found in the Andes.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: triclinic, feldspar, note.
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: triclinic, feldspar, note.
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: triclinic, feldspar, note.
Appoggiatura
noun · 78% connection
A passing tone preceding an essential tone, and borrowing the time it occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: triclinic, feldspar, note.
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: triclinic, feldspar, note.
Chesterlite
noun · 78% connection
A variety of feldspar found in crystals in the county of Chester, Pennsylvania.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: triclinic, feldspar, note.
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: triclinic, feldspar, note.
Diorite
noun · 78% connection
An igneous, crystalline in structure, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and hornblende. It includes part of what was call…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: triclinic, feldspar, note.
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: triclinic, feldspar, note.
Element
noun · 78% connection
One of the ultimate parts which are variously combined in anything; as, letters are the elements of written language; hence, also, a s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: triclinic, feldspar, note.
Feldspathose
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or consisting of, feldspar.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: triclinic, feldspar, note.
Felsite
noun · 78% connection
A finegrained rock, flintlike in fracture, consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: triclinic, feldspar, note.
Felspath
noun · 78% connection
See Feldspar.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: triclinic, feldspar, note.
Gneiss
noun · 78% connection
A crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: triclinic, feldspar, note.
Granite
noun · 78% connection
A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It diff…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: triclinic, feldspar, note.
Granulite
noun · 78% connection
A whitish, granular rock, consisting of feldspar and quartz intimately mixed; -- sometimes called whitestone, and leptynite.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: triclinic, feldspar, note.
