Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name given to the mineral which the Chinese carve into figures of pagodas, images of idols, and ornaments.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) Agalmatolite; -- so called because sometimes carved by the Chinese into the form of pagodas. See
agalmatolite .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dated, mineralogy
agalmatolite
Etymologies
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pagoda + -ite, because sometimes carved by the Chinese into the form of pagodas.
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