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LACCOLITE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Lac"co*lite\, Laccolith \Lac"co*lith\, n. [Gr. ? a
cistern + -lite, -lith.] (Geol.)
A mass of igneous rock intruded between sedimentary beds and
resulting in a mammiform bulging of the overlying strata. --
{Lac`co*lit"ic}, a.
 

 

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