| 单词 | hornstone |
| 释义 | hornstone (once / 153498 pages) n WORD FAMILY hornstone: hornstones USAGE EXAMPLESThe pebbles on the beach consist of quartz, red jasper, hornstone, and flinty slate, but do not contain any stone resembling chalk flint. Fitzroy, Robert, Narrative of the surveying voyages...(2012) The surface of the soil exhibits some fragments of hornstone and radiated quartz, with indications of iron-ore. Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-...(2011) The porphyry has a compact basis, like hornstone, of a dull brown colour, which contains imbedded crystals of felspar and quartz, and occasionally of augite. Franklin, John, Narrative of a Second Expedition to...(2010) n a fine-grained metamorphic rock formed by the action of heat on clay rocks Syn|Hyper hornfels metamorphic rock rock altered by pressure and heat |
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