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

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

Granitiform :: Granitiform (a.) Resembling granite in structure or shape.

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

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

Moorstone :: Moorstone (n.) A species of English granite, used as a building stone..

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

Gowan :: Gowan (n.) Decomposed granite.

Granite :: Granite (n.) A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It differs from gneiss in not having the mica in planes, and therefore in being destitute of a schistose structure..

Syenite :: Syenite (n.) Orig., a rock composed of quartz, hornblende, and feldspar, anciently quarried at Syene, in Upper Egypt, and now called granite..

Scagliola :: Scagliola (n.) An imitation of any veined and ornamental stone, as marble, formed by a substratum of finely ground gypsum mixed with glue, the surface of which, while soft, is variegated with splinters of marble, spar, granite, etc., and subsequently colored and polished..

Zeolite :: Zeolite (n.) A term now used to designate any one of a family of minerals, hydrous silicates of alumina, with lime, soda, potash, or rarely baryta. Here are included natrolite, stilbite, analcime, chabazite, thomsonite, heulandite, and others. These species occur of secondary origin in the cavities of amygdaloid, basalt, and lava, also, less frequently, in granite and gneiss. So called because many of these species intumesce before the blowpipe..

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..

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

Granitic :: Granitic (a.) Consisting of granite; as, granitic mountains..

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

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..

Growan :: Growan (n.) A decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall..

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

Schorly :: Schorly (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, schorl; as, schorly granite..

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