orthophyric

[awr-thuh-fahy-rik]

or·tho·phy·ric

[awr-thuh-fahy-rik]
adjective Petrography.
of or pertaining to a texture in which the groundmass is characterized by closely packed, short, quadrilateral crystals of feldspar larger than those in a trachytic groundmass.

Origin:
ortho- + -phyre + -ic
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