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orthoamphibolite

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
or-thoam-phi-bo-lite
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Metamorphic rock composed mostly of amphibole, plagioclase, with lesser amounts of epidote, zoisite, chlorite, quartz, titanite, and accessory leucoxene, ilmenite and magnetite derived from an igneous rock.

Etymology

From ortho- + amphibolite.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

orthoamphibolites (plural) ortho-amphibolite (alternative)

Questions

What does orthoamphibolite mean?
Metamorphic rock composed mostly of amphibole, plagioclase, with lesser amounts of epidote, zoisite, chlorite, quartz, titanite, and accessory leucoxene, ilmenite and magnetite derived from an igneous rock.
Where does orthoamphibolite come from?
From ortho- + amphibolite.

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