Pyroxenite

//paɪˈɹɑksin.aɪt// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    A heavy, dark igneous rock consisting mostly of pyroxene minerals with smaller amounts of olivine and hornblende. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From pyroxene + -ite.

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