Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A large mass of igneous rock that has melted and intruded surrounding strata at great depths.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A large mass of deep-seated igneous rock which may be exposed by erosion. The texture is granitoid and the shape indefinite. Batholiths of granite may cover hundreds of square miles. Contrasted with laccolith, *bysmalith, *intruded sheet, etc. Also batholite, bathylite, and bathylith.
Wiktionary
- n. geology A large irregular mass of intrusive igneous rock that has melted or forced itself into surrounding strata.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth.
WordNet 3.0
- n. large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth
Etymologies
- batho- + -lith (Wiktionary)
Examples
“East of the batholith is a basin-and-range area consisting of mountains, alluvial fans at their bases, and floodplains along the streams draining the valleys.”
Middle Rocky Mountain Steppe - Coniferous Forest - Alpine Meadow Province (Bailey)
“The Wolf River batholith-which stretches from Portage County through Waupaca, Shawano, Menominee, Langlade and Oconto counties-and the Puritan batholith, which is way up north in Sawyer, Bayfield,”
“Her education, week after week, consisted of mindless memorization of big words like "batholith" and "saprophyte" - words that an average Ph.D. scientist wouldn't know.”
“Nominally, this large group effort involving over 50 scientists and grad students is for “a seismic refraction and wide-angle reflection survey across the Coast Mountains batholith of British Columbia, Canada.””
“The batholith is deeply dissected, with a relief greater than 3,000 ft, and its granite is heavily weathered over large areas.”
Middle Rocky Mountain Steppe - Coniferous Forest - Alpine Meadow Province (Bailey)
“It gets its name from the granitic mass (batholith) that is exposed in the basin, granite that has been dated at one billion years old.”
“That was also one of the allegations made by Ignmar Lee when he sabotaged the batholith project.”
More Anti-Science Eco-Activism in British Columbia - The Panda's Thumb
“An elevated area dominated by a granite batholith lies on the western edge of the ecoregion south of the Queensland-New South Wales border.”
“Toward central Nova Scotia, the uplands are elevated and underlain by granitic batholith.”
“The view from on top of Enchanted Rock, a giant batholith.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘batholith’.
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phrontistery - b
List of words from phrontistery.info
babeldom, baccate, bacchanal, bacciferous, bacciform, baccivorous, bacillicide, backstay, bactericide, baculiform, baculine, baculum and 582 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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bathy-, batho-
of or relating to depth
bathyscaphe, bathysphere, batholith, bathos, bathophobia, bathochromic, bathymetry, bathymetric, bathyal zone, bathyal, bathybius, bathycolpian and 14 more...
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Ancient sounding
Words that sound weathered and archaic.
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the earth
Planetary chaos: terrain, landscape and geology excluding rocks. (See "the geologist" list for the latter.)
butte, karst, caldera, mesa, laccolith, cwm, crater, alp, precipice, sierra, badlands, prairie and 122 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, B
bloviate, bejesus, brouhaha, behoove, bodacious, bamboozle, banshee, bub, bolus, blob, bubbly, bleb and 414 more...
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litho-, lith-, -lith, -lithic, -lite
denoting or relating to stone, a kidney stone, or a mineral
lithograph, lithotomy, batholith, sodalite, monolith, monolithic, neolithic, lithosphere
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lithophilia
Words made using "lith/o" where it means rock or stone, not including those formed in the body.
Yoinked from the list found here.xenolith, uranolith, trilith, stromatolith, spongolith, regolith, psammolithic, protolith, prepalaeolith, polylith, phytolith, photolith and 60 more...
Tweets
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skipvia The largest batholith in the world is the Cascade Mountain Range in WA/BC.
Not to be confused with that sea-monster thing. Oct 14, 2007