Trachyte Definition

trākīt, trăkīt
noun
A fine-grained, light-colored, extrusive igneous rock, consisting chiefly of alkali feldspars: it is the extrusive equivalent to syenite.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Trachyte

Noun

Singular:
trachyte
Plural:
trachytes

Origin of Trachyte

  • From French trachyte, from Ancient Greek τρᾱχύς (trākhus, “rough").

    From Wiktionary

  • French from Greek trākhus rough

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Trachyte Sentence Examples

  • They are formed of trachyte, dolerite and basalt.

  • Large areas are overlain with trachyte, basalt, obsidian, tuff and pumice.

  • The most conspicuous features of the entire region, Mount Ararat (16,930 ft.) and Mount Alagoz (13,440 ft.), are both solid masses of trachyte; and both rise above the limits of perpetual snow.

  • Like the rest of the cluster, the island is of volcanic origin, with tuff, trachyte and obsidian among its ordinary rocks.

  • Included in this group are some rocks which are more properly to be regarded as vitreous forms of trachyte than as glassy rhyolites (Iceland), but except by chemical analyses they cannot be separated.

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Words Starting With

TTRTRA

Words Ending With

ETEYTE

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