Crossword-Solution: GREENSTONE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Greenstone | n. | A name formerly applied rather loosely to certain dark-colored igneous rocks, including diorite, diabase, etc. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “GREENSTONE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Altered basaltic rock | 1 answer |
| DIABASE | 1 answer |
| DIORITE | 1 answer |
| a vague name for any basic or intermediate igneous rock | 1 answer |
| Nephrite | 2 answers |
| jade | 44 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AEMCZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with GREENSTONE (5)
The surrounding islands all consist of conical masses of greenstone, associated sometimes with less regular hills of baked and altered clay-slate.
CHAPTER XII CENTRAL CHILE Valparaiso--Excursion to the Foot of the Andes--Structure of the Land--Ascend the Bell of Quillota--Shattered Masses of Greenstone--Immense Valleys--Mines--State of Miners--Santiago--Hot-baths of Cauquenes--Gold-mines--Grinding-mills--Perforated Stones--Habits of the Puma--El Turco and Tapacolo--Humming-birds.
The shattered and baked rocks, traversed by innumerable dykes of greenstone, showed what commotions had formerly taken place.
The summit of the mountain is broad and flat, and is composed of huge angular masses of naked greenstone.
Captain Ross found embedded in the conglomerate on the outer coast, a well-rounded fragment of greenstone, rather larger than a man's head: he and the men with him were so much surprised at this, that they brought it away and preserved it as a curiosity.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1987).