Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A variety of the zeolite chabazite, occurring in colorless rhombohedral crystals, lenticular in shape. These are often complex twins. The original was from Böhmisch Leipa in Bohemia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A colorless variety of chabazite; the original was from Leipa, in Bohemia.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A colourless variety of
chabazite .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek lentil + -lite.
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