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  1. n. geology one of the major groups of rock that makes up the crust of the Earth; formed by the cooling of molten rock, either below the surface (intrusive) or on the surface (extrusive)

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  1. n. rock formed by the solidification of molten magma

Examples

  • “So geologists, by measuring the ratio between potassium-40 and argon-40 in a piece of igneous rock that they pick up today, can tell how long ago the rock first crystallized out of its molten state.”

    Simon & Schuster: THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH

  • “Mostly the rocks brought back from the Sea of Tranquility were basalt: a dense, dark-gray, fine-grained igneous rock composed chiefly of calcium-rich plagioclase feldspar and pyroxene; on Earth, basalt is the commonest type of solidified lava.”

    Simon & Schuster: First Man

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hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. stone
  1. rock

hyponyms (16)

Words that are more specific

  1. batholith
  2. diorite
  3. pegmatite
  1. volcanic rock
  2. rhyolite
  3. groundmass
  1. batholite
  2. plutonic rock
  3. peridotite
  1. pluton
  2. adesite
  3. porphyry
  1. porphyritic rock
  2. gabbro
  3. andesite
  1. aplite

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. gabbro
  2. batholith
  3. batholite
  4. volcanic rock
  5. pluton
  6. porphyry
  7. pegmatite
  8. peridotite
  9. plutonic rock
  10. porphyritic rock
  11. rhyolite
  12. chlorsulphic
  13. xenocryst
  14. alkalimirlic
  15. are
  16. ASE
  17. docalcic
  18. norgare
  19. per
  20. vitro
  21. norm
  22. phyro
  23. alferric
  24. allogenic
  25. dofemane
  26. fabric
  27. granoliparose
  28. miric
  29. mirlic
  30. mode
  31. phyri
  32. syenite
  33. vitri
  34. yukonose
  35. granolite
  36. hornblendite
  1. jaspilite
  2. mitic
  3. olic
  4. polic
  5. pyric
  6. quardofelic
  7. quarfelic
  8. quartzophyre
  9. shonkinite
  10. sodipotassic
  11. subgrad
  12. suborder
  13. varietal
  14. ane
  15. atatchite
  16. laccolith
  17. intrusive
  18. pyrogenic
  19. sill
  20. xenolith
  21. endomorphism
  22. dike
  23. magma
  24. alferfemphyric
  25. alferphyric
  26. ariegite
  27. ate
  28. class
  29. dofelic
  30. femic
  31. grad
  32. lenad
  33. lendofelic
  34. lenfelic
  35. lenic
  36. melaphyre
  1. metal
  2. modal
  3. monzonite
  4. monzonose
  5. order
  6. oriocrystal
  7. peralkalic
  8. polmitic
  9. pre-
  10. pyrolic
  11. quaric
  12. rang
  13. rock
  14. salfemane
  15. section
  16. subclass
  17. subrang
  18. tilhemic
  19. tilic
  20. variety
  21. vitrophyro-yukonose
  22. ditroite
  23. dolerite
  24. diabase
  25. lherzolite
  26. laccolite
  27. clinkstone
  28. endogenetic
  29. granitization
  30. malchite
  31. metapyric
  32. missourite
  33. nordmarkite
  34. plumasite
  35. pseudamygdaloid
  36. pulaskite
  1. pyrorudite
  2. tawite
  3. urtite
  4. websterite
  5. alnoite
  6. aphyric
  7. augitoporphyric
  8. avezacite
  9. bysmalith
  10. charnockite
  11. hornblende
  12. anorthosite
  13. basalt
  14. pyroxenite
  15. dunite
  16. feldspar
  17. felsite
  18. ultrabasic
  19. schlieren
  20. trachyte
  21. margarite
  22. granite
  23. humphed
  24. volcanic
  25. nephelinite
  26. orthoclase
  27. amygdule
  28. phenocryst
  29. stock
  30. plug
  31. plutonic
  32. sheet
  33. platform
  34. irruptive
  35. biotite
  36. crystallite
  1. phonolite
  2. picrite
  3. pitchstone
  4. resorption
  5. tephrite
  6. trap
  7. volcanic neck
  8. apophysis
  9. adamellite
  10. apachite
  11. aschaffite
  12. authigenic
  13. beerbachite
  14. cornein
  15. diagenism
  16. dimorphism
  17. doferrous
  18. domagnesic
  19. dopolic
  20. dosalane
  21. felic
  22. generation
  23. glass
  24. hysterogenetic
  25. idiogenite
  26. ijolite
  27. luciite
  28. meteorite
  29. original
  30. pseudamygdule
  31. pyrarenyte
  32. pyrolutite
  33. rockallite
  34. saalband
  35. sölvsbergite
  36. stoping

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