abyssal rock

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abyssal rock (plural abyssal rocks)

  1. (geology) An igneous rock that crystallized at considerable depth in the crust; plutonic rock.

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  • Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 9