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Granitoid

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gran·ite  (grnt)
n.
1. A common, coarse-grained, light-colored, hard igneous rock consisting chiefly of quartz, orthoclase or microcline, and mica, used in monuments and for building.
2. Unyielding endurance; steadfastness: a will of granite.

[Italian granito, from past participle of granire, to make grainy, from grano, grain, from Latin grnum; see g-no- in Indo-European roots.]

gra·nitic (gr-ntk, gr-), granit·oid (grn-toid) adj.


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1991), one of many granitoid plutonic complexes that occur within the central Wabigoon Subprovince, of the Superior Province of the Canadian Shield.
 
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