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A provincial name given in England to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to other kind of dark-colored unstratified rocks which resist the point of the pick. -- for example, to masses of chert. Whin-dikes, and whin-sills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt.
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Formed like basalt; basaltiform.
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The basal part of the labium of insects. It bears the mentum.
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Lydian stone; basanite; -- so called because used to test the purity of gold and silver by the streak which is left upon the stone when it is rubbed by the metal. See Basanite.
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A vitreous form of basalt; -- so called because decomposable by acids and readily fusible.
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The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian.
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The long basal joint of the antennae of an insect.
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In the form of basalt; columnar.
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Forming compound groups or colonies by budding from basal processes or stolons; as, the social ascidians.
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Shaped like an arrowhead; triangular, with the two basal angles prolonged downward.
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One of the quill feathers which are borne upon the basal joint of the wing of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
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An imitation, in pottery, of natural basalt; a kind of black porcelain.
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An old term rather loosely used to designate various dark-colored, heavy igneous rocks, including especially the feldspathic-augitic rocks, basalt, dolerite, amygdaloid, etc., but including also some kinds of diorite. Called also trap rock.
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Pertaining to basalt; formed of, or containing, basalt; as basaltic lava.
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The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
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Any small fresh-water hydroid of the genus Hydra, usually found attached to sticks, stones, etc., by a basal sucker.
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A term now used to designate any one of a family of minerals, hydrous silicates of alumina, with lime, soda, potash, or rarely baryta. Here are included natrolite, stilbite, analcime, chabazite, thomsonite, heulandite, and others. These species occur of secondary origin in the cavities of amygdaloid, basalt, and lava, also, less frequently, in granite and gneiss. So called because many of these species intumesce before the blowpipe.
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A soft, earthy, dark-colored rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt.
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The posterior of the three principal basal cartilages in the fins of fishes.
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The basal expansion of certain leaves, which inwraps the stem; a sheath.
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