pargasite

[ pahr-guh-sahyt ]

nounMineralogy.

a green or bluegreen variety of hornblende.

Origin of pargasite

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1810–20; named after Pargas, town in Finland; see -ite¹

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How to use pargasite in a sentence

pargasite, pr′ga-sīt, n. a dark-green crystallised variety of amphibole or hornblende.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) | Various

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