English Explanatory Dictionary

nephelinite

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A darkish, finely crystalline rock of volcanic origin, being a mixture of nepheline and pyroxene

Word forms

nephelinite nephelinites

Etymology

From nepheline + -ite.

Derived words

leuconephelinite melanephelinite nephelinitic

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