Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large, bowl-shaped body of igneous rock intruded between layers of sedimentary rock.
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- noun geology a mass of
volcanic origneous rock found withinstrata which has spilled downward into underlaying strata and forms depressedregions . - noun geology mass similar to laccolith but
concave down
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Greek lopas, flat dish, casserole + –lith.]
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Ancient Greek λοπός (lopos, "shell") + λίθος (lithos, "stone")
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