intrusive

  1. Adjective.  Tending or apt to intrude; doing that which is not welcome; interrupting or disturbing; entering without right or welcome.
  2. Adjective.  (geology) Of rocks: forced, while in a plastic or molten state, into the cavities or between the cracks or layers of other rocks.
  3. Noun.  (geology) An igneous rock that is forced, while molten, into cracks or between other layers of rock.

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