Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mineral of a yellow or grayish yellow, found at Tivoli and Capo di Bove, near Rome.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A mineral occurring in small yellow crystals, found in the lavas (melilite basalt) of Vesuvius, and elsewhere.
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- noun mineralogy any
mineral consisting of asolid solution ofgehlenite (Ca2Al2SiO7) andakermanite (Ca2MgSi2O7)
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek μέλι (meli, "honey") + -ite.
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