diabase

djabaz

Definition

Definition of diabase - Reverso French Dictionary

Noun, feminine

pétrographie

TECH.

roche magmatique sombre formée par refroidissement lent du magma

TECH.

Cette diabase présente une texture cristalline bien visible à l'œil nu.

roche magmatique

entomologie

Dated

ancien nom d'un genre de mouches ressemblant aux taons

Dated

La diabase était classée parmi les diptères avant sa reclassification.

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Origin of diabase

grec, diabasis (traverse) ?

Examples of diabase in a sentence

On a identifié une veine de diabase sous cette couche de granit.
Le naturaliste a décrit la diabase dans son carnet d'observations.
On trouvait autrefois la diabase mentionnée dans les anciens traités d'entomologie.

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English:diabase, former genus of horsefly-like flies, ...
German:Diabas, Diabase, ...
Italian:diabase, genere di mosche simili ai tafani, ...
Spanish:diabasa, antiguo género de moscas similares a los tábanos, ...
Portuguese:diabásio, género antigo de moscas semelhantes aos tábanos, ...
Chinese:辉绿岩, 迪亚巴斯属, ...
Japanese:斑れい岩, アブに似たハエの古い分類名, ...
Arabic:دِيَابَاز, ...
Hebrew:דִּיאָבָּס, סוּג יָשָׁן שֶׁל זְבוּבִים דּוֹמֵי סוּסִים, ...
Russian:диабаз, диабаза, ...
Ukrainian:діабаз, стара назва роду мух, схожих на ґедзів, ...
Catalan:diabasa, diabase, ...
Danish:diabas, diabase, ...
Dutch:diabaas, geslacht van vliegen die op dazen lijken, ...
Greek:διαβάσης, παλαιά ονομασία γένους μυγών που μοιάζουν με ταβάνες, ...
Khmer:ឌាយ៉ាបាស, ឈ្មោះចាស់នៃពូជរុយស្រដៀងរុយសេះ, ...
Korean:휘록암, 말파리류의 옛 속명, ...
Polish:diabaz, dawna nazwa rodzaju much przypominających gzy, ...
Portuguese (BR):diabásio, diabase, ...
Romanian:diabaz, diabase, ...
Swedish:diabas, äldre namn på ett släkte flugor, ...
Thai:ไดอะเบส, ...
Turkish:diyabaz, diabase, ...
Vietnamese:điaba, điabase, ...

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