Definition of "batholite" []

• A large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth. (noun)

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• ""It's the batholite," responded Cosmo, using exactly the same phrase that Professor Pludder had employed some months before."
• ""Pardon me," interrupted King Richard, "but Mr. Versál has already spoken of a 'batholite.'"
• "After studying the matter I concluded that a batholite was rising under this region, and that there was a chance that we might escape submergence through its influence. ""