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Granite vs Growan - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between granite and growan

is that granite is a group of igneous and plutonic rocks composed primarily of feldspar and quartz. Usually contains one or more dark minerals, which may be mica, pyroxene, or amphibole. Granite is quarried for building stone, road gravel, decorative stone, and tombstones. Common colors are gray, white, pink, and yellow-brown while growan is a decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall.

As a proper noun Granite

is an island in South Australia.

granite

English

(wikipedia granite)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (rock) A group of igneous and plutonic rocks composed primarily of feldspar and quartz. Usually contains one or more dark minerals, which may be mica, pyroxene, or amphibole. Granite is quarried for building stone, road gravel, decorative stone, and tombstones. Common colors are gray, white, pink, and yellow-brown.
  • (uncountable, figurative) Toughness; the quality of having a thick skin or being rough.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=18 citation , passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 27, author=Nathan Rabin
    • , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992) , work=The Onion AV Club citation , passage=The neighbor is eventually able to sell her home despite Homer’s pants-less affronts to propriety and decency and Bart falls deeply and instantly for one of its new inhabitants, a tough but charming and funny tomboy girl named Laura (voiced by Sara Gilbert) with just the right combination of toughness and sweetness, granite and honey.}}

    Derived terms

    * granitic * granitoid * granitelike * graniteware * pregranitic

    See also

    * pegmatite, feldspar, quartz, granodiorite

    Anagrams

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    growan

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, mining) A decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall.
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