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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A variety of gneiss which has lenticular nuclei, of one mineral or of several, more coarsely crystalline than the normal components of the rock, and around which the foliation forks and passes, so as to suggest eyes within eyebrows and eyelashes.
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