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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A phanerocrystalline rock composed of lime-soda feldspar and olivin with a little pyroxene, the olivin sometimes changed to serpentine. The dark minerals appear as spots in the feldspar and suggest the spotting of trout.

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