Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to, resembling, or characterized by the presence of olivin.
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The island has a volcanic origin and its flatland consists of laminar strata of olivinic basaltic lavas; it is probably the upper structure of a recently active volcano as dating of the lava yields an age of some 100,000 years.
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