Peridotite

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of a group of igneous rocks composed mainly of olivine and various pyroxenes and having a granitelike texture.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A rock consisting of small crystals of olivine, pyroxene and hornblende; the major constituent of the Earth's mantle.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An eruptive rock characterized by the presence of chrysolite (peridot). It also usually contains pyroxene, enstatite, chromite, etc. It is often altered to serpentine.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A rock composed essentially of olivin, with which are usually associated more or less of one or more of the minerals enstatite, diallage, augite, magnetite, chromite, and picotite.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a dark coarse-grained igneous rock consisting principally of olivine
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    igneous rock   
    Hyponym
    kimberlite   
     
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