porphyritic

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Definition of porphyritic in English English dictionary: containing large crystals in a fine mass of material; of or pertaining to porphyry; {a} pertaining to or like porphyry; A pig; a porket; Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies; {s} of alabaster, pertaining to porphyry (type of rock); (of rocks) consisting of porphyry or containing large crystals in a fine groundmass of minerals A young hog; a pig; A treatise on prostitutes, or prostitution; The coarse-grained brownish yellow wood of a small tree (Pisonia obtusata) of Florida and the West Indies; Lascivious; licentious; Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious; licentious; as, pornographic writing; Relating to, or resembling, porphyry, that is, characterized by the presence of distinct crystals, as of feldspar, quartz, or augite, in a relatively fine-grained base, often aphanitic or cryptocrystalline; (of rocks) consisting of porphyry or containing large crystals in a fine groundmass of minerals; Also called pigeon wood, beefwood, and corkwood; The quality or state of; porphyraceous

porphyritic

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por·phy·ri·tic

pôrfırîtîk

/ˌpôrfərˈətək/ /ˌpɔːrfɜrˈɪtɪk/

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