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plutonic Adjective (of igneous rocks) formed from molten rock that has cooled and solidified below the earth's surface [after the Greek god Pluto]
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Also, he learned that Gluck had just sailed on the Green Star liner Plutonic for the United States. Toward noon, the doctor, for the purpose of burying the body, decided to descend into a ravine, in the midst of some plutonic rocks of primitive formation. He spoke in a strange northern accent; his thoughts being turned inwards upon himself, his eye on his iron charge, hardly perceiving the scenes around him, and caring for them not at all: holding only strictly necessary intercourse with the natives, as if some ancient doom compelled him to wander here against his will in the service of his Plutonic master. |
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