Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A grayish-green or brown variety of apatite from Wheal Franco, near Tavistock, in Devonshire, England. It occurs in small rounded crystals grouped in stalactitic masses.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A variety of apatite from Wheal Franco in Devonshire.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A variety of
apatite .
Etymologies
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Wheal Franco in Devonshire, + -lite.
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