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Meanings of igneous in English
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ígneo Produced under conditions involving intense heat; especially from molten magma"
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Examples for "eruptive"
1
Is an eruptive disease peculiar to children, slightly contagious, but not dangerous.
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DEFINITION.-Thisis a contagious, eruptive disease, which resembles to some extent small-pox
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Instead, the far-flung pieces of conquest are where the eruptive prowess lies.
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The potential for further eruptive activity in the future is high, it said.
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To our knowledge this is the first report of multiple eruptive myxoid dermatofibromas.
Usage of igneous in English
1
Heat as an agent in volcanic phenomena, igneous eruptions, metamorphism, veins, etc.
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Holocrystalline plutonic igneous rocks composed essentially of hornblende are known as hornblendites.
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There are submarine mud volcanoes as well as those of igneous kind.
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Sitting in the premier stone division is an igneous stone -granite.
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Their gaseous foundation there would be as firm as igneous rock here.
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Our study suggests a new mechanism for the formation of large igneous provinces.
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It was built on an elevated mass of igneous rock several miles wide.
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Traces of it are found in practically all igneous and most sedimentary rocks.
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This igneous matter diminishes in his old age-ittotally dissipates at his death.
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She appeared to attach some sort of igneous power to the human eye.
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Note.- Ialsofind that the formation is igneous, prehistoric and erroneous.
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Albite forms an essential constituent of many acidic igneous and FIG.
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An interesting and orderly petrological sequence of Tertiary igneous rocks has been determined.
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Upon the shore he found an out-cropping of brittle, igneous rock.
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The rock has been derived by dynamic metamorphism from a basic igneous rock.
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Thus, granite is an igneous, intrusive rock; lava is an igneous, extrusive rock.
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