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Webster 1913 Edition

Pyroxenite

Py-rox′e-nite

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Noun.

(Min.)

A rock consisting essentially of pyroxene.

Definition 2024

pyroxenite

pyroxenite

English

Noun

pyroxenite ‎(countable and uncountable, plural pyroxenites)

(geology) A heavy, dark igneous rock consisting mostly of pyroxene minerals with smaller amounts of olivine and hornblende.