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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In petrography, a fine-grained to aphanitic rock composed of orthoclase and lime-soda feldspars in about equal portions and subordinate amounts of ferromagnesian constituents. It is intermediate in composition between trachyte and andesite: similar to andesite-trachyte, trachydolerite, etc.
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