Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dark-green crystallized variety of amphibole or hornblende. See
hornblende .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A dark green aluminous variety of amphibole, or hornblende.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A complex
inosilicate mineral of theamphibole group.
Etymologies
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Pargas + -ite, after its locality in Finland.
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