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Meaning of 'diabase' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Diabase [ n.]
- A basic, dark-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron; -- often limited to rocks pretertiary in age. It includes part of what was early called greenstone.

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