granite : Idioms & Phrases
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Gneissoid granite
- granite in which the mica has traces of a regular arrangement.
Webster 1913
granite state
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noun a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies
NH; New Hampshire.
WordNet
granite stater
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noun a native or resident of New Hampshire
New Hampshirite.
WordNet
Granite ware
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(a) A kind of stoneware.(b) A Kind of ironware, coated with an enamel resembling granite.
Webster 1913
Graphic granite
- granite consisting of quartz and feldspar without mica, and having the quartz crystals so arranged in the transverse section like oriental characters.
Webster 1913
Hornblende granite
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Webster 1913
living granite
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noun highly succulent stemless clump-forming plants with grey-green leaves similar in texture to lumps of granite; South Africa
stone mimicry plant; living rock.
WordNet
Porphyritic granite
- granite containing feldspar in distinct crystals.
Webster 1913
Syenitic granite
- granite containing hornblende as well as mica, or, according to some authorities hornblende replacing the mica.
