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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In petrography, a phaneric igneous rock composed of orthoclase, a little oligoclase, a small amount of quartz and biotite, and sometimes diopside, hornblende, and ægirite; a variety of quartz-syenite rich in soda, related to nephelite-syenite.

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