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Agalmatolite
noun · 78% connection
A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grayish, greenish, compact, rock, composed.
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: grayish, greenish, compact, rock, composed.
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: grayish, greenish, compact, rock, composed.
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: grayish, greenish, compact, rock, composed.
Aphanite
noun · 78% connection
A very compact, dark-colored /ock, consisting of hornblende, or pyroxene, and feldspar, but neither of them in perceptible grains.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grayish, greenish, compact, rock, composed.
Augitic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or like, augite; containing augite as a principal constituent; as, augitic rocks.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grayish, greenish, compact, rock, composed.
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: grayish, greenish, compact, rock, composed.
Basaltic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to basalt; formed of, or containing, basalt; as basaltic lava.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grayish, greenish, compact, rock, composed.
Chlorosis
noun · 78% connection
The green sickness; an anaemic disease of young women, characterized by a greenish or grayish yellow hue of the skin, weakness, palpit…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grayish, greenish, compact, rock, composed.
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: grayish, greenish, compact, rock, composed.
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: grayish, greenish, compact, rock, composed.
Enstatite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of the pyroxene group, orthorhombic in crystallization; often fibrous and massive; color grayish white or greenish. It is a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grayish, greenish, compact, rock, composed.
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: grayish, greenish, compact, rock, composed.
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: grayish, greenish, compact, rock, composed.
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: grayish, greenish, compact, rock, composed.
Granulite
noun · 78% connection
A whitish, granular rock, consisting of feldspar and quartz intimately mixed; -- sometimes called whitestone, and leptynite.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grayish, greenish, compact, rock, composed.
Heteromerous
adjective · 78% connection
Unrelated in chemical composition, though similar or indentical in certain other respects; as, borax and augite are homoemorphous, but…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grayish, greenish, compact, rock, composed.
Hyalophane
noun · 78% connection
A species of the feldspar group containing barium. See Feldspar.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grayish, greenish, compact, rock, composed.