Augites is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.
You can make 196 anagrams from letters in augites (aegistu).
1780-90; Latin augītis a kind of precious stone Greek, equivalent to aug(ḗ) sunlight + -ītis, feminine of -ītēs -ite1
These are distinguished from augite by containing little or no aluminium.
Pyroxene, quartz and augite form the groundmass, as seen in section.
augite, when it occurs, is sometimes green, at other times purple.
Hornblende, like augite, also includes a great many minerals.
The augite is usually brown, but greenish, violet and colourless varieties may occur.
The biotite is brown; the hornblende brown or greenish brown; the augite usually green.
A crystal of augite is shown near the bottom of the drawing.
augite is the predominant mineral, the felspar being in much smaller proportions.
When the crystals are small, it is often difficult to distinguish hornblende from augite.
Sections of augite crystals from the lavas of 1794 and 1820.