Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mineral occurring in square prisms, either single or adbering to one another in fascicular groups.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A mineral of the scapolite group; -- so called from the double effect of fire upon it, in fusing it, and rendering it phosphorescent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A
scapolite mineral .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek twice fire; so called from the double effect of fire upon it, in fusing it and rendering it phosphorescent.
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