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shonkinite

shonkinite noun: a kind of mafic foidal syenite.

Noun

shonkinite (countable and uncountable, plural shonkinites)

  1. A kind of mafic foidal syenite.
    • Much of the southern half of the southeastern body is a mafic syenite, slightly more felsic than the shonkinite.1954, J. C. Olson, D. R. Shawe, L. C. Pray, W. N. Sharp, Rare-Earth Mineral Deposits of the Mountain Pass District, San Bernadino County, California, U.S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 261...

Forms of shonkinite

pluralshonkinites

Origin of shonkinite

From Shonkin + -ite, after the type locality at Shonkin Sag in the Highwood Mountains of north-central Montana.

Words formed from shonkinite

Questions about shonkinite

What does shonkinite mean?
Shonkinite means a kind of mafic foidal syenite.
What part of speech is shonkinite?
Shonkinite is a noun.
What is the plural of shonkinite?
The plural of shonkinite is shonkinites.

Words near shonkinite in the dictionary

  1. shonkier
  2. shonkies
  3. shonkiest
  4. shonkily
  5. shonkiness
  6. shonkinite
  7. shonkinites
  8. shonkinitic
  9. Shonkoff
  10. shonks
  11. Shonkwiler

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