Syenite is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SYENITE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a coarse-grained igneous rock, allied to granite, also SIENITE
• a coarse-grained grey igneous rock composed mainly of alkali feldspar and ferromagnesian minerals such as hornblende.
• light-coloured coarse-grained plutonic igneous rock
• Orig., a rock composed of quartz, hornblende, and feldspar, anciently quarried at Syene, in Upper Egypt, and now called granite.
• A granular, crystalline, ingeous rock composed of orthoclase and hornblende, the latter often replaced or accompanied by pyroxene or mica. Syenite sometimes contains nephelite (elaeolite) or leucite, and is then called nephelite (elaeolite) syenite or leucite syenite.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an igneous rock

Words related to SYENITE

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Words that contain SYENITE

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How to use SYENITE in a sentence

• Thus at either end of the bay is a rocky promontory, and when the dawn or the sunset falls on the rocks of red syenite the effect is very lovely.
• Our first ascent was over a magnificent mountain mass of syenite, which at some places seemed to be as fine as our own Quincy stone.
• Then the syenite or granite seemed as if it had been melted, for it was all in striae, which striae, as they do elsewhere, run east and west.
• The sun, piercing the green carpet, then showed its structure of red, syenite granite, similar to slabs of lapis-lazuli.
• The hills on either side are, in the north, limestone, in the central region sandstone, and in the south granite and syenite.

Similar words containing SYEN without suffix ite

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