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from The Century Dictionary.
- A rock consisting of a fine-grained, holocrystalline base, through which the ordinary constituents of granite are scattered in more or less regular crystalline forms. It is closely connected with and passes into porphyritic granite and quartz-porphyry. See
granite , , and porphyry.
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