Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A brown-to-black, soft, elastic hydrocarbon resin.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An elastic mineral resin of a blackish-brown color, subtranslucent, and occurring in soft flexible masses. Also called elastic bitumen and mineral caoutchouc.

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

  • noun (Min.) A mineral resin, of a blackish brown color, occurring in soft, flexible masses; -- called also mineral caoutchouc, and elastic bitumen.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun mineralogy The mineral wurtzilite.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[elater, elasticity (obsolete) + –ite.]

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-ite

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Examples

  • Asphalts and bitumens include a wide variety of hydrocarbon materials, such as gilsonite, grahamite, elaterite, ozokerite, etc., which are used for somewhat different purposes.

    The Economic Aspect of Geology 1915

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