Gabbro Definition

găbrō
gabbros
noun
Any of a group of usually dark, coarsegrained, igneous rocks, composed chiefly of pyroxene and plagioclase.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Gabbro

Noun

Singular:
gabbro
Plural:
gabbros

Origin of Gabbro

  • Italian perhaps from Latin glaber bald, beardless

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Italian gabbro.

    From Wiktionary

Gabbro Sentence Examples

  • With the J urassic beds is associated an extensive series of eruptive rocks (gabbro, peridotite, serpentine, diorite, granite, &c.); they are chiefly of Jurassic age, but the eruptions may have continued into the Lower Cretaceous.

  • Gabbro occurs in the peninsula of Fethland; diorite in Northmavine between Rinas Voe and Mavis Grind; and epidote-syenite in Dunrossness.

  • A soil of very close texture, the gabbro, is found, most largely in the north-east.

  • It appears to consist chiefly of gabbro, peridotite, serpentine and other very basic eruptive rocks, which are believed to be of Cretaceous age.

  • They are accompanied by intrusions of diabase and gabbro, and they are sometimes folded, sometimes but little disturbed.

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Words Starting With

GGAGAB

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OROBRO

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