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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A light to dark green carbonate mineral, Cu2CO3(OH)2, used as a source of copper and for ornamental stoneware.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A basic carbonate of copper having a beautiful green color, hence commonly called the green carbonate of Copper. It occurs rarely in tufts of slender monoclinic crystals, more frequently massive with mammillary, stalactitic, or granular structure, often fibrous and radiated. The finest specimens come from the Siberian mines. It is also common in Cornwall and in South Australia, Arizona, etc. It takes a good polish, and is manufactured into ornamental articles. It is often called green malachite, in distinction from blue malachite, or azurite, which is a related carbonate of copper containing less water, and which often passes by alteration into the green carbonate. See azurite.

Wiktionary

  1. n. mineralogy A bright green mineral, a basic copper carbonate, Cu2CO3(OH)2; one of the principal ores of copper.
  2. n. A mild green colour, like that of the mineral.
  3. adj. From olive-taupe to that of a mild to deeply-rich -- at times seemingly translucent -- green colour, like that of the mineral which is present on oxidized copper.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Min.) Native hydrous carbonate of copper, usually occurring in green mammillary masses with concentric fibrous structure.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a green or blue mineral used as an ore of copper and for making ornamental objects

Etymologies

  1. Middle English melochite, from Latin molochītes, from Greek molokhītis, from malakhē, molokhē, mallow, of Semitic origin; see mlḥ in Semitic roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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