noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun

1. 1
   A type of igneous rock that fills a dyke (a rock filling a fissure that is now often rising above the older stratum that has eroded away).

   "Appears to be a fine-grained dioritic dyke rock, but is too dirty and stained to be satisfactorily examined."

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"Appears to be a fine-grained dioritic dyke rock, but is too dirty and stained to be satisfactorily examined."

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