plutonic rock

1. 1.

   large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth

   Synonymsbatholithbatholitepluton

   Broaderigneous rock

   Narrowergranite

Questions about plutonic rock

What does plutonic rock mean?

plutonic rock means "large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth".

What is another word for plutonic rock?

Close synonyms include batholith, batholite, pluton. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is plutonic rock a common word?

plutonic rock 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.