Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name applied by Roth to the rock called
rhyolite by Von Richthofen. Seerhyolite .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A quartzose trachyte; rhyolite.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A
quartzose trachyte ;rhyolite .
Etymologies
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Lipari + -ite
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Examples
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On various sites in the palace at Knossos there have been found stone vessels of diorite, syenite, and liparite, exquisitely wrought.
The Sea-Kings of Crete James Baikie 1898
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