gabbro

See also: Gabbro and gabbró

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian gabbro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡabɹəʊ/

Noun

gabbro (countable and uncountable, plural gabbros)

1. (petrology) Originally, a kind of serpentine; now generally a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene and labradorite.
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 59:

     It is known as gabbro and is thought to form the lower layer of the oceanic crust at about four kilometres depth and to comprise a layer up to six kilometres thick, making it one of the most abundant, if least recognisable, materials on earth.

Derived terms

• gabbroid
• gabbroic
• leucogabbro
• melagabbro
• microgabbro

Translations

igneous rock

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 輝長岩／辉长岩 (zh), 辉长岩 (zh) (huīchángyán)

• Finnish: gabro (fi)
• French: gabbro (fr)
• German: Gabbro (de) m
• Greek: γάββρος (el) m (gávvros)
• Hungarian: gabbró
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• Icelandic: gabbró n
• Italian: gabbro (it) m
• Japanese: 斑糲岩 (ja) (はんれいがん, hanreigan)
• Portuguese: gabro m
• Russian: га́ббро (ru) m (gábbro)
• Serbo-Croatian: gabro (sh)
• Spanish: gabro m