Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A light-brown, yellow, or reddish mineral resin found in the Tertiary coal of Bovey, Devonshire. Alcohol separates from it a compound which has the composition C21H28O3, to which the name retinellite has been given.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) Retinite.
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- noun mineralogy
retinite
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek ῥητίνη (rētinē, "resin") + ἄσφαλτος (asphaltos, "asphalt").
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