igneous
pronunciation
How to pronounce igneous in British English:
UK [ˈɪgniəs]
How to pronounce igneous in American English:
US [ˈɪɡniəs]
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- Adjective:
- produced under conditions involving intense heat
- like or suggestive of fire
Word Origin
- igneous (adj.)
- 1660s, from Latin igneus "of fire, fiery," from ignis "fire," from PIE *egni- "fire" (cognates: Sanskrit agnih "fire, sacrificial fire," Old Church Slavonic ogni, Lithuanian ugnis "fire").
Example
- 1. Topaz occurs in the igneous rock rhyolite .
- 2. What he believed to be igneous , was in fact sedimentary .
- 3. Igneous rock forms when magma cools and solidifies .
- 4. Were large igneous provinces caused by mantle plumes ?
- 5. But must see the army and the people of igneous dynamite industry writtens guarantee .