Granite

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1.

(Geol.) 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. Gneissoid granite granite in which the mica has traces of a regular arrangement. Graphic granite granite consisting of quartz and feldspar without mica, and having the quartz crystals so arranged in the transverse section like oriental characters. Porphyritic granite granite containing feldspar in distinct crystals. Hornblende granite granite containing hornblende as well as mica, or, according to some authorities hornblende replacing the mica. Granite ware a - A kind of stoneware. b - A Kind of ironware, coated with an enamel resembling granite.

Noun	1.	granite - plutonic igneous rock having visibly crystalline texture; generally composed of feldspar and mica and quartz
	2.	granite - something having the quality of granite (unyielding firmness); "a man of granite"

aa, abyssal rock, adamant, basalt, bedrock, block lava, bone, brash, breccia, brick, cement, concrete, conglomerate, crag, diamond, druid stone, festooned pahoehoe, flint, gneiss, heart of oak, igneous rock, iron, lava, limestone, living rock, magma, mantlerock, marble, metamorphic rock, monolith, nails, oak, pahoehoe, pillow lava, porphyry, pudding stone, regolith, rock, ropy lava, rubble, rubblestone, sandstone, sarsen, schist, scoria, scree, sedimentary rock, shelly pahoehoe, steel, talus, tufa, tuff

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