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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. See hemimorphite.
  2. n. A pink, odorless, tasteless powder of zinc oxide with a small amount of ferric oxide, dissolved in mineral oils and used in skin lotions.
  3. n. An alloy composed of lead, tin, and zinc.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An alkaloid contained in the rhizome of sweet-flag, Acorus Calamus, and found to be identical with choline.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A pale pink powdered form of zinc oxide used in skin lotions
  2. n. The zinc silicate mineral hemimorphite

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (min.) A mineral, the hydrous silicate of zinc.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a white mineral; a common ore of zinc

Etymologies

  1. French calamine, Latin calamina. (Wiktionary)
  2. French, from Medieval Latin calamīna, alteration of Latin cadmīa; see cadmium. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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