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gabbro

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Noun
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gab=bro

CIDE DICTIONARY

gabbron. [It.].
     A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now generally used for a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene (diallage) and labradorite, with sometimes chrysolite (olivine gabbro).  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

gabbro, n. (pl. -os) a dark granular plutonic rock of crystalline texture.

Derivative
gabbroic adj. gabbroid adv.
Etymology
It. f. Gabbro in Tuscany

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