C19: named after Teschen, German name of Cieszyn in S Poland, where it was found
teschenite in American English
(ˈteʃəˌnait)
noun
a coarse-grained igneous rock consisting of plagioclase, olivine, and augite
Word origin
[1865–70; Teschen (German name of Czech Tešín, town in Czechoslovakia) + -ite1]This word is first recorded in the period 1865–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: black belt, goulash, springboard, steamroller, valence-ite is a suffix of nouns denoting esp. persons associated with a place, tribe, leader,doctrine, system, etc. (Campbellite; Israelite; laborite); minerals and fossils (ammonite; anthracite); explosives (cordite; dynamite); chemical compounds, esp. salts of acids whose names end in -ous (phosphite; sulfite); pharmaceutical and commercial products (vulcanite); a member or component of a part of the body (somite)
Examples of 'teschenite' in a sentence
teschenite
All results underline the role of externally derived fluids during post-magmatic alteration of bodies of rock of the teschenite association.
Jirásek Jakub, Dolníček Zdeněk, Matýsek Dalibor, Urubek Tomáš 2017, 'Genetic aspects of barite mineralization related to rocks of the teschenite associationin the Silesian Unit, Outer Western Carpathians, Czech Republic', Geologica Carpathicahttp://www.degruyter.com/view/j/geoca.2017.68.issue-2/geoca-2017-0010/geoca-2017-0010.xml?format=INT. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)