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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A massive variety of thomsonite from Magnet Cove in the Ozark Mountains, Arkansas.

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  • noun mineralogy A type of rock (hydrous aluminum-silicate) that is native to the Arkansas; also called thomsonite.
  • noun mineralogy, archaic The mineral mozarkite of the Missouri, Ozark region.

Etymologies

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First named in print by C.U. Shepard in 1846, named after The Ozarks, Missouri, although it was from the region of Hot Springs, Arkansas.

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