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The Meaning of granite

  • (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