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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A usually white or colorless mineral, essentially Zn4Si2O7(OH)2·H2O, an important ore of zinc.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Calamin, or hydrous silicate of zinc: a name given in allusion to the common hemimorphic character of the crystals.

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  • noun mineralogy An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, oxygen, silicon, and zinc.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a white mineral; a common ore of zinc

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[hemimorph(ic) + –ite.]

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