trachyte
English
editEtymology
editFrom French trachyte, from Ancient Greek τρᾱχύς (trākhús, “rough”).
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editNoun
edittrachyte (countable and uncountable, plural trachytes)
- (geology) A pale igneous rock consisting mostly of potassium feldspar and plagioclase.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 52:
- The type of rock that results is often described as trachyte and contains abundant crystals of a different kind of alkali-rich feldspar, such as sanidine, rather than plagioclase.
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editTranslations
editpale igneous rock
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Noun
edittrachyte f (plural trachytes)
Further reading
edit- “trachyte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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