Word familyadjectivegraniticgranitiformgranitoidgranolithicgranophyricnoungranitificationgranititegranitizationgranodioritegranophyregranitegranitewareverbgranitize
HEGa very hard greyrock, often used in building 花岗岩,花岗石
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granite• Bronze on granite base. 6.5m.• Hatchet-faced, tough as the city's granite, Yevdoxia plumped herself down at Anna's side.• They imported all the granitegravel for the driveway from Paris.• At one place, the round shape of an engineprotruded from the granite.• Salt water, beaten into a white sea foam, collides into the granite with each swell.• This appears to coincide with the base of the granite batholith and may represent the basal Variscan thrust.• Gritblew off the granite outcroppings and the fields beneath grew nothing but rocks and dust.• The wolframite is scattered extremely thinly throughout the granite.
Origingranite
(1600-1700)Italiangranito, from Latingranum; → GRAIN