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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or resulting from burning.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In petrography, in the quantitative system of classification of igneous rocks (see rock), having the characters of or containing normative pyroxene.

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