basaltic en · ADJ
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.
Meanings
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Of or pertaining to basalt.
The island gains its geothermal heat from basaltic magma in the fissure systems of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
2000, Tony Waltham, “Geyser watching”, in Geology Today, volume 16, number 3, page 97:1894, 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.
Deriveds
nonbasaltic · basaltic magma · basaltically
Translations (15)
fi basalttinen (relating to basalt) · ko 현무암질 (relating to basalt) · it basaltico (relating to basalt) · nn basaltisk (relating to basalt) · ca basàltic (relating to basalt) · es basáltico (relating to basalt) · fr basaltique (relating to basalt) · nb basaltisk (relating to basalt) · ro bazaltic (relating to basalt) · ko 현무암의 (relating to basalt) · da basaltisk (relating to basalt) · gl basáltico (relating to basalt) · de basaltisch (relating to basalt) · pl bazaltowy (relating to basalt) · pt basáltico (relating to basalt)