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Adularia
noun · 78% connection
A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: igneous, rock, light, gray, color.
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: igneous, rock, light, gray, color.
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: igneous, rock, light, gray, color.
Asbestos
noun · 78% connection
A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: igneous, rock, light, gray, color.
Ash-colored
adjective · 78% connection
Of the color of ashes; a whitish gray or brownish gray.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: igneous, rock, light, gray, color.
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: igneous, rock, light, gray, color.
Breaker
noun · 78% connection
A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: igneous, rock, light, gray, color.
Crag
noun · 78% connection
A steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: igneous, rock, light, gray, color.
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: igneous, rock, light, gray, color.
Diorite
noun · 78% connection
An igneous, crystalline in structure, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and hornblende. It includes part of what was call…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: igneous, rock, light, gray, color.
Ditroite
noun · 78% connection
An igneous rock composed of orthoclase, elaeolite, and sodalite.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: igneous, rock, light, gray, color.
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: igneous, rock, light, gray, color.
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: igneous, rock, light, gray, color.
Flint
noun · 78% connection
A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: igneous, rock, light, gray, color.
Fluorescence
noun · 78% connection
That property which some transparent bodies have of producing at their surface, or within their substance, light different in color fr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: igneous, rock, light, gray, color.
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: igneous, rock, light, gray, color.
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: igneous, rock, light, gray, color.
Gray
superl. · 78% connection
Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: igneous, rock, light, gray, color.
