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Definition of "syenitic" []

  • Pertaining to, resembling or containing syenite (adjective)
  • Pertaining to Syene (modern Aswan) (adjective)

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Use "syenitic" in a sentence
  • "In two hours we crossed a small stream, with slippery syenitic rocks in its bed, showing the action of furious torrents."
  • "Here, for the first time, we saw hills with bare, smooth, rocky tops, and we crossed over broad dikes of gneiss and syenitic porphyry: the directions in which they lay were N. and S."
  • "It is situated among rocks of syenitic porphyry in broad dikes, and gneiss tilted on edge, and having a strike to the N.E. There are many specimens of half-formed pumice, with greenstone and lava."
Words like "syenitic"
bacchanalia
clean-lined
dirtand
ever-enduring
feingold
gold-shot
herbless new-cut
pink-gray
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red-flecked
underslung