porphyrite

English

Noun

porphyrite (plural porphyrites)

1. A rock with a porphyritic structure.

   augite porphyrite

Translations

rock with a porphyritic structure

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 玢岩 (ban¹ ngaam⁴)

  Mandarin: 玢岩 (zh) (bīnyán)

• Finnish: porfyriitti
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• French: porphyrite (fr) f
• Japanese: 玢岩 (ひんがん, hingan)
• Russian: порфирит (ru) m (porfirit)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “porphyrite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)