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In the form of basalt; columnar.
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Formed like basalt; basaltiform.
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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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A soft, earthy, dark-colored rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt.
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The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian.
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The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
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A vitreous form of basalt; -- so called because decomposable by acids and readily fusible.
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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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The basal expansion of certain leaves, which inwraps the stem; a sheath.
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Shaped like an arrowhead; triangular, with the two basal angles prolonged downward.
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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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Pertaining to basalt; formed of, or containing, basalt; as basaltic lava.
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The posterior of the three principal basal cartilages in the fins of fishes.
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An imitation, in pottery, of natural basalt; a kind of black porcelain.
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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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The middle one of the three principal basal cartilages in the fins of fishes.
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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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The basal part of the labium of insects. It bears the mentum.
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Forming compound groups or colonies by budding from basal processes or stolons; as, the social ascidians.
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The long basal joint of the antennae of an insect.
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