Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A basic copper arsenate occurring in green mammillary crystalline forms: from Cornwall, but earlier supposed to come from Ireland, hence the name.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A hydrous arseniate of copper, of an emerald-green color; -- so called from Erin, or Ireland, where it occurs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A
hydrous copper arseniate of an emerald-green colour.
Etymologies
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Erin + -ite, referring to Ireland, where it occurs.
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