Plural of gneiss; multiple specimens or formations of this banded metamorphic rock.
Regular English plural of gneiss, adding -es because the word ends in 's.' Follows standard pluralization rules.
The plural gneisses looks a bit odd because the singular already ends in 's'—this happens with several words borrowed from German into English, creating these surprising doubled-s plurals!
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