monchiquite
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A black, basaltic igneous rock consisting of a ground mass of automorphic augite and magnetite with many embedded phenocrysts, usually of olivine.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "It resembles the analcite basalts of the Highwood Mountains, in Montana, and the monchiquites of Brazil."
- "Seven samples from monchiquite dykes analysed chemically by Upton et al. (1992), including trace elements and, for three rocks, Sr and Nd isotope data, were classified on chemical grounds as olivine melanephelinite […]"