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The Meaning of granite
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(n.) 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.
Rhymes
banat
,
gannet
,
gannett
,
granat
,
janet
,
manat
,
manatt
,
planet
,
pomegranate
,
tannate
,
thanet