Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A variety of trachyte occurring in the volcanic region of central France.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A grayish variety of trachyte; -- so called from the Puy-de-
Dôme in Auvergne, France, where it is found.
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- noun mineralogy A greyish variety of
trachyte .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The +Puy-de-Dome+ is 4806 ft. above the level of the sea, has no crater, and is covered with a long tufted grass, with here and there a rough spongy rock cropping out, of volcanic origin, and called trachyte, of which the variety found here, and almost here alone, has been named domite.
The South of France—East Half C. B. Black
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Although we passed many localities where water might have been expected, and travelled where three different rocks, domite, sandstone, and basalt, came in contact, and where springs are so frequently found, yet not a drop of water could we find.
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Ludwig Leichhardt 1830
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I did not ascend Mount McConnel, but it seemed to be composed of a species of domite.
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Ludwig Leichhardt 1830
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