ACHONDRITE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A stony meteor lacking chondrules

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("achondrite" is a kind of...):

rock; stone (a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter)

Derivation:

achondritic (of or related to an achondrite)

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