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XENOLITH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does xenolith mean?
• XENOLITH (noun)
The noun XENOLITH has 1 sense:
1. (geology) a piece of rock of different origin from the igneous rock in which it is embedded
Familiarity information: XENOLITH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(geology) a piece of rock of different origin from the igneous rock in which it is embedded
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("xenolith" is a kind of...):
rock; stone (a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter)
Domain category:
geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)
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