Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A silicate of manganese of an ash-gray or reddish color, commonly occurring in cleavable masses: found in New Jersey, also in Sweden. It belongs to the chrysolite group.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A silicate of manganese of an ash-gray color.
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- noun mineralogy An orthorhombic-dipyramidal
mineral containingmanganese ,oxygen , andsilicon .
Etymologies
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