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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In petrography, a name given by H. W. Turner (1901) to phanerocrystalline igneous rocks composed chiefly of monoclinic amphibole and monoclinic pyroxene. Chemically they are distinguished by being lime-magnesia-silicate rocks.
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