monzogranite

English

Noun

monzogranite (countable and uncountable, plural monzogranites)

  1. A kind of biotite granite rock, considered to be the final fractionation product of magma.
    • 2008 February 15, Susan Morgan, “Off the Set, Into the Desert”, in New York Times‎:
      Just down the road is the western entrance to Joshua Tree National Park, an 800,000-acre preserve in an otherworldly monzogranite rock scape between the Mojave and Colorado Deserts.
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