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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A mineral, Cu2(AsO4)(OH), a basic arsenate of copper, that is brown, olive green, or gray in color and found in copper deposits.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An arseniate of copper, usually of an olive-green color, occurring in prismatic crystals, and also in reniform, granular, and fibrous crusts. The latter forms have sometimes a yellow to brown color. Also called
olive-ore , and the fibrous kinds wood-copper.
Wiktionary
- n. mineralogy An orthorhombic copper arsenate mineral with the chemical formula Cu2AsO4OH.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Min.) An olive-green mineral, a hydrous arseniate of copper (Cu2(AsO4)(OH)); olive ore.
WordNet 3.0
- n. rare green to black mineral consisting of hydrated copper arsenate that is found in copper deposits
Etymologies
- From German Olivenerz ("olive ore"), from its olive-green colour + -ite. (Wiktionary)
- German Olivenit : Olive, olive (from Latin olīva; see olive) + -it, n. suff. (from Latin -īta; see -ite1). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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