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porphyre

English

Noun

porphyre (countable and uncountable, plural porphyres)

  1. Obsolete form of porphyry.
    • Let us consider the red and white colours in porphyre: hinder light but from striking on it, and its colours vanish; it no longer produces any such ideas in us []

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /p??.fi?/

Noun

porphyre m (plural porphyres)

  1. porphyry

References

porphyre From the web:

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  • what is a porphyry


porphyry

English

Etymology

From Old French porfire, from Ancient Greek ?????????? ????? ("purple stone").

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?p??f??i/

Noun

porphyry (countable and uncountable, plural porphyries)

  1. (geology) a hard igneous rock consisting of large crystals in a fine-grained matrix
    1. A purple-red rock of this kind.

Derived terms

  • porphyrous
  • porphyry shell

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