granite : Idioms & Phrases


Gneissoid granite

  • granite in which the mica has traces of a regular arrangement.
Webster 1913

granite state

  • noun a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies
    NH; New Hampshire.
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granite stater

  • noun a native or resident of New Hampshire
    New Hampshirite.
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Granite ware

  • . (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

  • 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.
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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.
Webster 1913