Definition of "sienite" [si•e•nite]

• Alternative form of syenite. (noun)

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• "This is more properly to be called sienite, or syenitic granite, with felspar too abundant generally to make a firm and durable stone."
• "Here and there only small rocks of granite, quartz or sienite interrupt the dreary uniformity of the plain."
• "They lingered around the rocks in their path, black with fringes of dry sea-weed, and talked of gneiss and sienite, granite and trap; they stopped at the curve in the shore, and sat down to watch the white flitting of sails on the far horizon-line, and somehow, the sight of them led to a long talk about"