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Peridotite

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Noun

1. peridotite

a dark coarse-grained igneous rock consisting principally of olivine

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Peridotite

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noun
a dark coarse-grained ultrabasic plutonic igneous rock consisting principally of olivine

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Peridotite

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noun
any of several coarsegrained, dark igneous rocks consisting mainly of olivine and other ferromagnesian minerals

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Peridotite

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n.
Any of various coarse-grained igneous rocks that consist mainly of olivine and pyroxene and are believed to be a main constituent of the earth's mantle.

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