Definitions for granophyre

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granophyre gran·o·phyre

Spelling: [gran-uh-fahyuh r]

IPA: /ˈgræn əˌfaɪər/

Granophyre is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 539 anagrams from letters in granophyre (aeghnoprry).

Definitions for granophyre

noun

1. a fine-grained or porphyritic granitic rock with a micrographic intergrowth of the minerals of the groundmass.

Origin of granophyre

First recorded in 1880-85; grano- + -phyre

Examples for granophyre

This is the essential distinction between a granite and a quartz-porphyry or a granophyre.

Still later, dolerite sills and sheets and dikes of granophyre and quartz felsite followed in the same region.