See greywacke on Wiktionary
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"word": "metagraywacke"
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"ref": "2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 177:",
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"A hard dark sandstone with poorly sorted angular grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments in a compact, clay-fine matrix."
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"(geology) A hard dark sandstone with poorly sorted angular grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments in a compact, clay-fine matrix."
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"sense": "hard dark sandstone",
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"word": "droba"
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"sense": "hard dark sandstone",
"word": "grauvakka"
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"sense": "hard dark sandstone",
"word": "whatuaho"
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"sense": "hard dark sandstone",
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"word": "szarogłaz"
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"ipa": "/ˈɡɹeɪ.wæk/",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "hard dark sandstone",
"word": "grauvakka"
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "hard dark sandstone",
"word": "whatuaho"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "hard dark sandstone",
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "grauvákka",
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}
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