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# basaltic

adjective (basaltic)

«basaltic» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Made of basalt, a dark, heavy rock that forms when lava from a volcano cools quickly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basaltic/#m1)
2. Like basalt or containing a lot of it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basaltic/#m2)

### In the lessons

In science and geography lessons it describes rocks, lava and the sea floor: «basaltic lava» is runny and flows far, as in Hawaii and Iceland. It tells the reader we are talking about volcanoes and igneous rock. Phrases: «basaltic rock», «basaltic lava», «basaltic columns».

### Examples

- The Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland is made of basaltic columns. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basaltic/#x1)
- Basaltic lava is runny and flows a long way. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basaltic/#x2)
- Most of the ocean floor is basaltic rock. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basaltic/#x3)
- The island has black basaltic beaches. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basaltic/#x4)
- Our rock kit has a basaltic sample that feels heavy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basaltic/#x5)
- The Moon's dark patches are basaltic plains. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basaltic/#x6)
- Volcanoes in Hawaii pour out basaltic lava. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basaltic/#x7)

### Note

Adjective from the noun basalt (BASS-alt, stress on the first syllable in the UK, often on the second in the US). Basaltic is said bass-AWL-tic. Basalt is an igneous rock, made from cooled lava; granite is another igneous rock but cooled slowly underground.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «basaltic» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basaltic/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«basaltic» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/basaltic.html) on Mova free.