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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In petrography, a name given by H. S. Washington (1897) ‘to a group of lavas in Tuscany characterized by the presence of lime-soda feldspar and orthoclase with some quartz: related to vulsinites and ciminites. Equivalent to dellenite.

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