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Brewer's: Plutonic Rocks
Granites, and certain porphyries, supposed to be of igneous, but not of volcanic, origin. So called by Lyell from Pluto, the principle of elemental fire.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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