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What is the noun for pyroxenites?

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pyroxenite
  1. (geology) A heavy, dark igneous rock consisting mostly of pyroxene minerals with smaller amounts of olivine and hornblende.
  2. Examples:
    1. “In similar contrast to the Okenyenya xenolith suite, lithologies such as wehrlite, eclogite and pyroxenite are also absent.”
      “Subsequent melting of mica pyroxenite may produce potassic magmas as a result of orogenic or extensional, thermal or bark triggers.”
      “Its lower part displays alternating bands of peridotite, pyroxenite, and dunite, but dunite is dominant throughout most of the unit.”
pyroxene
  1. (mineralogy) Any of a group of crystalline minerals containing silicates of iron, magnesium and calcium.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Extreme cases are found in mineral groups such as apatite, amphibole, pyroxene, feldspar, and tourmaline.”
      “The most fundamental characteristic of tholeiites is the presence of a low-Ca pyroxene.”
      “This sample contains large plagioclase and pyroxene crystals, some of which have a sponge-like texture.”
pyroxferroite
  1. (mineralogy) A yellowish silicate of the pyroxene group with a triclinic crystal structure.
pyroxenoid
  1. (mineralogy) any of a large group of minerals physically resembling pyroxene
  2. Examples:
    1. “The pyroxenoid occurs as granular masses of small anhedral crystals associated with manganoan magnetite.”
pyroxferroites
  1. plural of pyroxferroite
pyroxenites
  1. plural of pyroxenite
pyroxenoids
  1. plural of pyroxenoid
pyroxenes
  1. plural of pyroxene
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