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say it: pahy-RAHK-seen
pyroxene is a noun meaning "any of a group of crystalline silicate mineral common in igneous and metamorphic rocks". It is pronounced /paɪˈɹɑksin/ — pahy-RAHK-seen. It carries one recorded sense.
any of a group of crystalline silicate mineral common in igneous and metamorphic rocks
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pyroxene come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.