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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In petrography, the name proposed by Lacroix in 1901 for an ultra-basic igneous rock of granular texture, consisting principally of augite, hornblende, ilmenite, and magnetite, with some apatite, and titanite. It occurs in narrow dikes in lherzolite.
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