Granit

[ Swedish grah-neet ]

noun

1. Rag·nar Ar·thur [rahng, -nah, r, , ahr, -t, oo, r], 1900–1991, Swedish physiologist, born in Finland: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1967.

Example Sentences

L, sur le sommet d'une montagne, est un amas considrable de blocs de granit, tonnans par leur volume et leur nombre.

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A l'est les montagnes calcaires laissent le granit dcouvert, et lui demeurent comme adosses.

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A peine a-t-on pass le torrent, que le granit commence parotre.

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It is the granit feuillete of M. de Saussure, and, if I mistake not, what is called gneis by the Germans.

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Granit′iform, Gran′itoid, of the form of or resembling granite; Granolith′ic, composed of cement formed of pounded granite.

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