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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In petrography, the name of the fourth class of igneous rocks in the quantitative classification (see rock); a rock in which the femic (ferromagnesian) normative minerals preponderate over the salic minerals, that is, normative quartz, feldspars, feldspathoids (lenads), and corundum, within the limits .

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