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monchiquites

monchiquites is the plural of monchiquite.

Meaning of monchiquite

Noun

monchiquite (countable and uncountable, plural monchiquites)

  1. A black, basaltic igneous rock consisting of a ground mass of automorphic augite and magnetite with many embedded phenocrysts, usually of olivine.
    • It resembles the analcite basalts of the Highwood Mountains, in Montana, and the monchiquites of Brazil.1917, Geological Survey (U.S.), Professional Paper (issue 93, page 84)

Questions about monchiquites

What is monchiquites the plural of?
Monchiquites is the plural of monchiquite.

Words near monchiquites in the dictionary

  1. moncheite
  2. monchew
  3. monchews
  4. Monchique
  5. monchiquite
  6. monchiquites
  7. monchiquitic
  8. monchong
  9. Monchy
  10. Moncion
  11. Moncions

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