Usually means: Igneous rock composed mostly pyroxene.
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  1. pyroxenite: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pyroxenite: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pyroxenite: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pyroxenite: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pyroxenite: Wordnik
  6. pyroxenite: Wiktionary
  7. pyroxenite: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. pyroxenite: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Pyroxenite, pyroxenite: Dictionary.com
  10. Pyroxenite: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Pyroxenite: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. pyroxenite: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Pyroxenite: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. pyroxenite: Free Dictionary
  15. pyroxenite: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. pyroxenite: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pyroxenite)

noun:  (geology) A heavy, dark igneous rock consisting mostly of pyroxene minerals with smaller amounts of olivine and hornblende.

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