basaltic

1. 1.

   of or relating to or containing basalt

   “basaltic magma is fluid”

Questions about basaltic

What does basaltic mean?

basaltic means "of or relating to or containing basalt".

How many syllables are in basaltic?

basaltic has 3 syllables and divides as ba-sal-tic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is basaltic a common word?

basaltic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.