plutonic
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of plutonic
1790–1800; < Latin Plūtōn- (stem of Plūtō Pluto < Greek Ploútōn ) + -ic; originally referring to the Plutonic theory ( see plutonism)
Example Sentences
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However, Page Six reports that the duo’s relationship is plutonic and not romantic.
From Fox News ● Aug. 3, 2021
These are known as coarse-grained intrusive, or plutonic, igneous rocks.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
“We’re exactly like a man capable of sustaining a plutonic friendship with an attractive female co-worker — we’re entirely hypothetical.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2015
Oliver Sacks writes of his own experience with aluminum chemistry, “Huge energies, plutonic forces, were being unleashed, and I had a thrilling, but precarious sense of being in control—sometimes just.”
From Slate ● May 3, 2013
The accessible deposits of the deep zone are associated with plutonic igneous rocks which have been deeply eroded, and not with surface lavas.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith
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