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Granitoid
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
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| granite (ˈɡrænɪt) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a light-coloured coarse-grained acid plutonic igneous rock consisting of quartz, feldspars, and such ferromagnesian minerals as biotite or hornblende: widely used for building |
| 2. | great hardness, endurance, or resolution |
| 3. | another name for a stone |
| [C17: from Italian granito grained, from granire to grain, from grano grain, from Latin grānum] | |
| 'granite-like | |
| —adj | |
| granitic | |
| —adj | |
| 'granitoid | |
| —adj | |
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