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Pegmatite :: Pegmatite (n.) More generally, a coarse granite occurring as vein material in other rocks..

Pegmatitic :: Pegmatitic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, pegmatite; as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite..

Crystalline :: Crystalline (a.) Imperfectly crystallized; as, granite is only crystalline, while quartz crystal is perfectly crystallized..

Plash :: Plash (v. t.) To splash or sprinkle with coloring matter; as, to plash a wall in imitation of granite..

Sphinx :: Sphinx (n.) In Egyptian art, an image of granite or porphyry, having a human head, or the head of a ram or of a hawk, upon the wingless body of a lion..

Holocrystalline :: Holocrystalline (a.) Completely crystalline; -- said of a rock like granite, all the constituents of which are crystalline..

Granitic :: Granitic (a.) Like granite in composition, color, etc.; having the nature of granite; as, granitic texture..

Luxullianite :: Luxullianite (n.) A kind of granite from Luxullian, Cornwall, characterized by the presence of radiating groups of minute tourmaline crystals..

Plashing :: Plashing (n.) The dashing or sprinkling of coloring matter on the walls of buildings, to imitate granite, etc..

Gneissoid :: Gneissoid (a.) Resembling gneiss; having some of the characteristics of gneiss; -- applied to rocks of an intermediate character between granite and gneiss, or mica slate and gneiss..

Protogine :: Protogine (n.) A kind of granite or gneiss containing a silvery talcose mineral.

Pegmatite :: Pegmatite (n.) Graphic granite. See under Granite.

Granite State :: Granite State () New Hampshire; -- a nickname alluding to its mountains, which are chiefly of granite..

Gowan :: Gowan (n.) Decomposed granite.

Marble :: Marble (n.) A massive, compact limestone; a variety of calcite, capable of being polished and used for architectural and ornamental purposes. The color varies from white to black, being sometimes yellow, red, and green, and frequently beautifully veined or clouded. The name is also given to other rocks of like use and appearance, as serpentine or verd antique marble, and less properly to polished porphyry, granite, etc..

Micropegmatite :: Micropegmatite (n.) A rock showing under the microscope the structure of a graphic granite (pegmatite).

Epidotic :: Epidotic (a.) Related to, resembling, or containing epidote; as, an epidotic granite..

Unstratified :: Unstratified (a.) Not stratified; -- applied to massive rocks, as granite, porphyry, etc., and also to deposits of loose material, as the glacial till, which occur in masses without layers or strata..

Bushhammer :: Bushhammer (v. t.) To dress with bushhammer; as, to bushhammer a block of granite..

Hypogene :: Hypogene (a.) Formed or crystallized at depths the earth's surface; -- said of granite, gneiss, and other rocks, whose crystallization is believed of have taken place beneath a great thickness of overlying rocks. Opposed to epigene..

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