Crossword-Solution: SYENITE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Syenite | n. | Orig., a rock composed of quartz, hornblende, and feldspar, anciently quarried at Syene, in Upper Egypt, and now called granite. |
| Syenite | n. | A granular, crystalline, ingeous rock composed of orthoclase and hornblende, the latter often replaced or accompanied by pyroxene or mica. Syenite sometimes contains nephelite (elaeolite) or leucite, and is then called nephelite (elaeolite) syenite or leucite syenite. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “SYENITE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Granitelike igneous rock | 1 answer |
| Granitelike rock that sounds kinda like a poison | 1 answer |
| Igneous rock of Upper Egypt. | 1 answer |
| ANY IGNEOUS ROCK WITH CRYSTALS EMBEDDED IN A FINER GROUNDMASS OF MINERALS | 10 answers |
| granite | 12 answers |
| Igneous rock. | 17 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with SYENITE (5)
Amphibole is a constituent of many crystalline rocks, as syenite, diorite, most varieties of trachyte, etc.
Again, Beside webbed purples from some galleon's hold, A black chest bore the skull and bones in white Above a scrawled "Gunpowder!" By the flames, Decked out in crimson, gemmed with syenite, Hailing their fellows with outrageous names, The pirates sat and diced.
The Hindoos were especially skilled in the art of making steel, as indeed they are to this day; and it is supposed that the tools with which the Egyptians covered their obelisks and temples of porphyry and syenite with hieroglyphics were made of Indian steel, as probably no other metal was capable of executing such work.
They are Syenite; and (you may believe me or not, as you will) they were once upon a time in the condition of a hasty pudding heated to some 800 degrees of Fahrenheit, and in that condition shoved their way up somewhere or other through these slates.
But where? whence on earth did these Syenite pebbles come? Let us walk round to the cliff on the opposite side and see.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1948–2003).