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Albite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of the feldspar family, triclinic in crystallization, and in composition a silicate of alumina and soda. It is a common cons…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: whitish, granular, rock, consisting, feldspar.
Andesite
noun · 78% connection
An eruptive rock allied to trachyte, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar, with pyroxene, hornblende, or hypersthene.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: whitish, granular, rock, consisting, feldspar.
Anorthite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of the feldspar family, commonly occurring in small glassy crystals, also a constituent of some igneous rocks. It is a lime…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: whitish, granular, rock, consisting, feldspar.
Basalt
noun · 78% connection
A rock of igneous origin, consisting of augite and triclinic feldspar, with grains of magnetic or titanic iron, and also bottle-green…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: whitish, granular, rock, consisting, feldspar.
Chalcedony
noun · 78% connection
A cryptocrystalline, translucent variety of quartz, having usually a whitish color, and a luster nearly like wax.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: whitish, granular, rock, consisting, feldspar.
Chondritic
adjective · 78% connection
Granular; pertaining to, or having the granular structure characteristic of, the class of meteorites called chondrites.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: whitish, granular, rock, consisting, feldspar.
Chondro-
unknown · 78% connection
A combining form meaning a grain, granular, granular cartilage, cartilaginous; as, the chondrocranium, the cartilaginous skull of the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: whitish, granular, rock, consisting, feldspar.
Crystal
noun · 78% connection
The regular form which a substance tends to assume in solidifying, through the inherent power of cohesive attraction. It is bounded by…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: whitish, granular, rock, consisting, feldspar.
Diabase
noun · 78% connection
A basic, dark-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: whitish, granular, rock, consisting, feldspar.
Dolerite
noun · 78% connection
A dark-colored, basic, igneous rock, composed essentially of pyroxene and a triclinic feldspar with magnetic iron. By many authors it…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: whitish, granular, rock, consisting, feldspar.
Eclogite
noun · 78% connection
A rock consisting of granular red garnet, light green smaragdite, and common hornblende; -- so called in reference to its beauty.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: whitish, granular, rock, consisting, feldspar.
Edelweiss
noun · 78% connection
A little, perennial, white, woolly plant (Leontopodium alpinum), growing at high elevations in the Alps.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: whitish, granular, rock, consisting, feldspar.
Element
noun · 78% connection
One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: whitish, granular, rock, consisting, feldspar.
Felsite
noun · 78% connection
A finegrained rock, flintlike in fracture, consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: whitish, granular, rock, consisting, feldspar.
Gabbro
noun · 78% connection
A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now generally used for a coar…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: whitish, granular, rock, consisting, feldspar.
Gneiss
noun · 78% connection
A crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: whitish, granular, rock, consisting, feldspar.
Granite
noun · 78% connection
A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It diff…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: whitish, granular, rock, consisting, feldspar.
Granuliform
adjective · 78% connection
Having a granular structure; granular; as, granuliform limestone.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: whitish, granular, rock, consisting, feldspar.