BASALT
Dictionary entry overview: What does basalt mean? • BASALT (noun)
The noun BASALT has 1 sense:
1. the commonest type of solidified lava; a dense dark grey fine-grained igneous rock that is composed chiefly of plagioclase feldspar and pyroxene
Familiarity information: BASALT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BASALT (noun)
Meaning:
The commonest type of solidified lava; a dense dark grey fine-grained igneous rock that is composed chiefly of plagioclase feldspar and pyroxene
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("basalt" is a kind of...):
volcanic rock (extrusive igneous rock solidified near or on the surface of the Earth)
Meronyms (substance of "basalt"):
pyroxene (any of a group of crystalline silicate mineral common in igneous and metamorphic rocks)
oligoclase; plagioclase (any of a series of triclinic feldspars that form rocks)
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