English dictionary · adj

megalithic

Of or pertaining to megaliths, to the people who made them, or to the period when they were made.

Meaning and definitions

1. Of or pertaining to megaliths, to the people who made them, or to the period when they were made.

Connected roots

• mega-

  great, large

• lith-

  stone

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These words share a recorded root connection. A shared root is a learning clue; it does not establish every step in a word’s history.

• monolith

  a large single upright block of stone

• megaphone

  a cone-shaped device for amplifying and directing the voice

• lithography

  The process of printing an image by drawing the image with a water-repellent material onto a hard, flat surface (typically metal), then copying the surface by applying water and ink (or the equivalent) to it and pressing another material against it.

• lithograph

  A printed image produced by lithography.

• megalomaniac

  One affected with or exhibiting megalomania.

• megaman

  A very large or powerful man.

• zeolite

  Any of several minerals, aluminosilicates of sodium, potassium, calcium or magnesium, that have a porous structure (originally, those which swelled and gave off water when heated); they are used in water softeners, in ion exchange chromatography, and as industrial catalysts.

• regolith

  The layer of loose rock, dust, sand, and soil, resting on the bedrock, that constitutes the surface layer of most dry land on Earth, the Moon, and other large solid aggregated celestial objects. Submarine regolith also exists.

• rhyolite

  An igneous, volcanic (extrusive) rock, of felsic composition, with aphanitic to porphyritic texture.

• megalopolis

  A large conurbation, where two or more large cities have sprawled outward to meet, forming something larger than a normal metropolis.

• megalodon

  A species of extinct shark that lived during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs (†Otodus megalodon).

• cytomegalovirus

  Any of several herpes viruses, of the genus Cytomegalovirus, that infect the salivary glands of certain primates, including humans.

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