Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Keep "clinopyroxene" when the sentence already sounds natural, when a synonym would add unintended emphasis, or when readers need the most familiar wording. A synonym should clarify or sharpen the message, not simply make the sentence look more varied.
If two options seem close, choose the one that best matches the audience and purpose of the sentence.
Choose a synonym only if it keeps the core idea of "clinopyroxene" intact in the sentence you are editing.
Check whether the replacement sounds more formal, casual, emotional, technical, or forceful than the original word.
Read the full sentence after the swap. Keep the synonym only when the sentence becomes clearer or more precise.
Review note: Synonym lists are ranked with lexical data and reviewed for practical writing value. Use the comparison notes, sentence evidence, and source labels together; a high-ranking synonym can still be wrong when the audience, register, or grammar changes.
After choosing a replacement for "clinopyroxene", read the sentence once for meaning and once for rhythm. The best synonym should feel natural in the full sentence, not only accurate in a word list.
If the synonym makes the sentence slower, vaguer, or more dramatic than intended, keep "clinopyroxene" or choose a simpler alternative from the closest-match group.
3 total sentences available.
It is well illustrated and it is good to see photographs of macrofauna and microflora of the Cambrian rocks of St Tudwal’s Peninsula; thin section photomicrographs, for example the glomeroporphyritic cluster of andesine and augitic clinopyroxene within the Bryn Crin Basaltic Trachyandesite (Plate 18, page 65), are also very welcome.
Source: wiktionary
Abundant phenocrysts and glomerocrysts of altered olivine and fresh clinopyroxene, up to 2 mm across, occur with sporadic microphenocrysts of opaque iron oxide and alkali feldspar (Figure 3.1). The olivine is replaced by carbonate and clay. Euhedral clinopyroxenes are sometimes partially resorbed along their margins and exhibit strong core to rim and sector growth zoning.
Source: wiktionary
The alkali basalts are fine-grained in hand specimen with scattered phenocrysts of greenish olivine up to 5 mm in size. In thin section, the fine-grained groundmass is composed of intergranular olivine, clinopyroxne, plagioclase, Fe–Ti oxides and intersertal glass.
Source: wiktionary
Compare the replacement against real sentence context. This entry includes sample sentences so you can check tone, grammar, and meaning before swapping words.