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- n. In petrography, a porphyry in which the most prominent phenocrysts are of augite: analogous to orthophyre. The term was first applied by Scacchi to the augitic and leucitic lavas of Italy in which the augite is megascopically the more prominent.
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Euvocalic Mineral Names
List of mineral names that are euvocalic - containing all vowels once - 3 dozen at last count.
I have thus far encountered 6 mineral names that are euryvocalic, containing all vowels o...chudobaite, coquandite, anduoite, ashburtonite, aurorite, fluorcaphite, johnbaumite, huanghoite, jouravskite, kurchatovite, kurnakovite, laumontite and 44 more...
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Panvocalic euryvocalic
"Euryvocalics" are words that contain all the vowels once, including "y". "Euryvocalic", meaning "broad vowels", was coined here to describe this kind of word. Words having all the vowels once exce...
euryvocalic, absolutively, abstemiously, abstentiously, adventiously, youngmanishness, facetiously, audiometry, neustonically, cylindraceous, denunciatory, equivocally and 591 more...
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Geology
baraboo, monadnock, peneplain, endrumpf, peneplanation, cairngorm, paleooology, stream capture, allochthon, slickensides, graywacke, tectonics and 56 more...
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