Usually means: Dark mineral, common in igneous.
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  1. hornblende: Merriam-Webster
  2. hornblende: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hornblende: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hornblende: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hornblende: Vocabulary.com
  6. hornblende: Wordnik
  7. hornblende: Wiktionary
  8. hornblende: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. hornblende: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. hornblende: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. hornblende: Dictionary.com
  12. Hornblende: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Hornblende: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. hornblende: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. hornblende: Rhymezone
  16. Hornblende: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. hornblende: Robb: German English
  18. hornblende: FreeDictionary.org
  19. hornblende: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. hornblende: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. hornblende: Encyclopedia

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Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hornblende: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry
  2. hornblende: Dictionary of Geology

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hornblende)

noun:  (mineralogy) A green to black amphibole mineral, of complex structure, formed in the late stages of cooling in igneous rock.

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