pyroxene

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From French pyroxène, from pyro- + Ancient Greek ξένος (“stranger”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /pʌɪˈɹɒksiːn/
• (US) IPA: /paɪˈɹɑksiːn/

Noun

pyroxene (plural pyroxenes)

1. (mineralogy) Any of a group of crystalline minerals containing silicates of iron, magnesium and calcium.
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 10:

     By the pathside, there are occasional large boulders that shown black crystals the size of a fingernail; these are pyroxene minerals that had time to crystallise out deep within the chamber of liquid rock – or magma – beneath the volcano.

Translations

mineral

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 輝石, 辉石

  Mandarin: 輝石 (cmn), 辉石 (cmn) (huīshí)

• Finnish: pyrokseeni (fi)
• French: pyroxène (fr) m
• German: Pyroxen (de) n

• Icelandic: pýroxen (is) n
• Italian: pirosseno (it) m
• Japanese: 輝石 (ja) (きせき, kiseki)
• Russian: пироксен (ru) (piroksén) m 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пиро̀ксе̄н (sh) m

  Roman: piròksēn (sh) m