Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mineralogy, same as
ceylonite . Seespinel .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A black variety of spinel.
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- noun mineralogy A
black variety ofspinel .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a dark-colored spinel containing iron
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek abundant, rich; compare French pléonaste.
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It is simply titaniferous iron, iserine, pleonaste, ilmenite [Footnote: Or peroxide of iron, with 8 to 23 per cent, of blue oxide of titanium.] and degraded itabirite, the iron and quartz formation so called in the Brazil; and it is the same mineral which
To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855
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