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XENOLITH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(geology) a piece of rock of different origin from the igneous rock in which it is embedded
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("xenolith" is a kind of...):
rock; stone (a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter)
Domain category:
geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)