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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In petrography, in the quantitative system of classification of igneous rocks (see rock), a prefix used before the name of a rock to indicate that its texture is microscopically porphyritic, the phenocrysts being not megascopically notable, or quite insignificant.

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