Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A blue or greenish-blue mineral, a hydrous sulphate of lead and copper, found in attached crystals, with other ores of lead, at Leadhills in Lanarkshire, Scotland, and at Roughten Gill in Cumberland, England, also in Hungary and the Harz mountains.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A hydrous sulphate of copper and lead, found in some parts of Caledonia or Scotland.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A basic
carbonate /sulfate mineral ofcopper andlead
Etymologies
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From Caledonia + -ite.
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