what does igneous mean?
IGNEOUS as ADJECTIVE
- Meaning
- like or suggestive of fire
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- the burning sand
- a fiery desert wind
- an igneous desert atmosphere
Similar To
- Meaning
- produced under conditions involving intense heat
- especially from molten magma”
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- igneous rock is rock formed by solidification from a molten state
- igneous fusion is fusion by heat alone
- pyrogenic strata
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