Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mineral occurring in hexagonal prisms of a greenish-gray or brown color.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A mineral occurring in greenish gray six-sided prisms, having a greasy luster. It is probably a pseudomorph after elæolite.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A greenish-grey variety of
muscovite .
Etymologies
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Giesecke + -ite, after Karl Giesecke.
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