Definitions for felsite

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felsite fel·site

Spelling: [fel-sahyt]

IPA: /ˈfɛl saɪt/

Felsite is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 165 anagrams from letters in felsite (eefilst).

Definitions for felsite

noun

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

Origin of felsite

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

Examples for felsite

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

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

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