porphyritic rock

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   any igneous rock with crystals embedded in a finer groundmass of minerals

   Synonymsporphyry

   Broaderigneous rock

Questions about porphyritic rock

What does porphyritic rock mean?

porphyritic rock means "any igneous rock with crystals embedded in a finer groundmass of minerals".

What is another word for porphyritic rock?

Close synonyms include porphyry. 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 porphyritic rock a common word?

porphyritic 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.