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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Columbite.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
columbite . - noun One of a branch of Monophysites, founded by Stephanus Niobes in the sixth century, who opposed the views of the Severians (see
Severian ).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) Same as
columbite .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The mineral
columbite .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a black mineral that is an ore of niobium and tantalum
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[niob(ium) + –ite.]
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