English Explanatory Dictionary

hypersthenite

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A more or less coarsely crystalline igneous rock, allied to gabbro; an aggregate of labradorite (feldspar) and hypersthene, of plutonic origin.

Word forms

hypersthenite hypersthenites

Etymology

From hypersthene + -ite.

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