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 Bear Islands lying off the mouth of the Kolyma are, for the most part, formed of a plutonic rock, whose upper part has weathered away, leaving gigantic isolated pillars.
From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Leslie, Alexander, fl. 1879-1882
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