granitoid

[ gran-i-toid ]

adjective

1. resembling or having the texture of granite.

Word History and Origins

Origin of granitoid¹

First recorded in 1785–95; granite + -oid

Example Sentences

The rock is almost identical in quality with that at the summit of Mont Dolent, and is probably a granitöid gneiss.197.The summit of the Aiguille Verte was a snowy dome, large enough for a quadrille.

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Many of these orthogneisses are not equally well foliated throughout, but are massive or granitoid in places.

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Fine-grained, amorphous, granitoid rock, composed of minute particles of grey quartz; a honey-colored felspar of waxy lustre, of unknown composition; minute particles of red semitransparent garnet, of conchoidal fracture; and small particles, with occasional large nests, of plumbago.

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Wolstenholme Sound the granitoid rocks of Greenland become converted into mica slate and actinolite slate of a remarkable character.

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Yellow and white sandstones are also found in small quantity on the islands, reposing upon the granitoid rocks.

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