Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A variety of garnet of a reddish-yellow or brown color, occurring in coarse granular masses: so called from its resemblance in color and luster to the resin colophony.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A coarsely granular variety of garnet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A coarsely
granular variety ofgarnet .
Etymologies
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colophony + -ite, from the resemblance in colour.
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