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Meaning Of Gabbro
n.
A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of
serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now generally used
for a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar
pyroxene (diallage) and labradorite, with sometimes chrysolite (olivine
gabbro).