Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
ceylonite .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A dingy blue, or grayish black, variety of spinel. It is also called
pleonaste .
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- noun mineralogy A dingy blue or greyish-black variety of
spinel .
Etymologies
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From French, from Ceylan ("Ceylon") + -ite.
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