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dyke-rocks

dyke-rocks is the plural of dyke-rock.

Meaning of dyke-rock

Noun

dyke-rock (plural dyke-rocks)

  1. A type of igneous rock that fills a dyke (a rock filling a fissure that is now often rising above the older stratum that has eroded away).
    • Appears to be a fine-grained dioritic dyke rock, but is too dirty and stained to be satisfactorily examined.1901, Smithsonian Institution, Board of Regents, Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, page 427

Questions about dyke-rocks

What is dyke-rocks the plural of?
Dyke-rocks is the plural of dyke-rock.

Words near dyke-rocks in the dictionary

  1. dyke-back
  2. dyke-backs
  3. dyke-phase
  4. dyke-phases
  5. dyke-rock
  6. dyke-rocks
  7. dyke-swarm
  8. dyke-swarms
  9. Dykebar
  10. dyked
  11. dyked out

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