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English Dictionary: gabbro by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gabbro
n
  1. one of a family of granular intrusive rocks
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gabbro \Gab"bro\, n. [It.] (Geol.)
      A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of
      serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now
      generally used for a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock
      consisting of lamellar pyroxene (diallage) and labradorite,
      with sometimes chrysolite (olivine gabbro).
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