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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A mineral closely related in form and composition to epidote, but containing manganese, hence sometimes called manganepidote. It is of a reddish-brown color, and is found at St. Marcel in Piedmont.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Min.) A manganesian kind of epidote, from Piedmont. See epidote.

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  • noun mineralogy A manganic variety of epidote.

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Piedmont +‎ -ite

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