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n. An igneous rock composed primarily of alkali feldspar together with other minerals, such as hornblende.

n. granite

n. An igneous rock composed of feldspar and hornblende

n. Orig., a rock composed of quartz, hornblende, and feldspar, anciently quarried at Syene, in Upper Egypt, and now called granite.

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 (elæolite) or leucite, and is then called nephelite (elæolite) syenite or leucite syenite.

n. A rock composed of feldspar and hornblende, with or without quartz.

n. In the quantitative system of classification (see rock), a proposed general field-term for a phaneric igneous rock composed of dominant feldspar of any kind, with subordinate amounts of mica, hornblende, pyroxene, or other minerals, and without a noticeable amount of quartz

"Its quarries, with those of Rohannou, were the principal ones of Egypt; they supplied a certain kind of red granite called syenite, out of which were cut the obelisks, monolithic temples, the colossus, etc."

leucite-syenite    alkali syenite   

granite    nephelite (elæolite) syenite    leucite syenite   

diorite    whinstone    trachyte    Precambrian    gneiss    augite    breccia    porphyry    rhyolite    rousette