basaltic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.46 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to basalt.
Example Sentences
- "1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter I, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt Even the beneficient rainfall had failed to attract animal life to the basaltic waste, and the genius of silence seemed to brood over all."
- "The island gains its geothermal heat from basaltic magma in the fissure systems of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge."
Etymology
Etymology tree English basalt Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English basaltic From basalt + -ic.