Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A variety of sandstone that is flexible when cut into thin slabs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fine-grained, quartzose, talcomicaceous slate, an important member of the gold-bearing formation of Brazil. In thin slabs it is sometimes more or less flexible.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A laminated, granular, siliceous rocks, often occurring in regions where the diamond is found.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A
porous yellowsandstone that isflexible when cut into thin strips.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It is possible that the sandstone may afford precious stones like the itacolumite of the Brazil
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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In the Brazils, in the diamond district of Minas Geraes and St. Paul, which has recently been so accurately investigated by Clausen, Plutonic action has developed in dioritic veins sometimes ordinary mica, and sometimes specular iron in quartzose itacolumite.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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It is possible that the sandstone may afford precious stones like the itacolumite of the Brazil ( "Highlands of the Brazil," i.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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