"shonkinite" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: shonkinites [plural]
Etymology: Shonkin + -ite, after the type locality at Shonkin Sag in the Highwood Mountains of north-central Montana. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|Shonkin|ite}} Shonkin + -ite Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} shonkinite (countable and uncountable, plural shonkinites)
  1. (mineralogy) A kind of mafic foidal syenite. Wikipedia link: shonkinite Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Minerals

Inflected forms

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