Definitions for felsites

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felsites fel·site

Spelling: [fel-sahyt]

IPA: /ˈfɛl saɪt/

Felsites is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 205 anagrams from letters in felsites (eefilsst).

Definitions for felsites

noun

1. a dense, fine-grained, igneous rock consisting typically of feldspar and quartz, both of which may appear as phenocrysts.

Origin of felsites

First recorded in 1785-95; fels(par) + -ite¹

Examples for felsites

The stones themselves were felsite, which abounds in the locality.

We found, besides, a few cores of felsite and some shapeless flakes and several fragments of large metates.

In the south of the island there are sills and dykes of felsite, quartz-porphyry, rhyolite, trachyte and pitchstone.