Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A gray, green, or brown mineral similar to mica, formed by chemical alteration of other minerals, such as cordierite.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hydrous silicate of aluminium and potassium, occurring massive of a white to gray or green or brown color and dull waxy luster.
- noun A variety of sugar derived from hexahydrobenzene, C6H6(OH)5(OCH3), which exudes from wounds in the California sugar-pine, Pinus Lambertiana.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A compact granular cryptocrystalline mineral of a dull grayish or greenish white color. It is a hydrous alkaline silicate, and is derived from the alteration of other minerals, as iolite.
- noun (Paleon.) Any fossil wood which exhibits traces of having belonged to the Pine family.
- noun (Chem.) A sweet white crystalline substance extracted from the gum of a species of pine (
Pinus Lambertina ). It is isomeric with, and resembles, quercite.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any
fossil wood which exhibitstraces of having belonged to thepine family. - noun chemistry A sweet white crystalline substance extracted from the
gum of a species ofpine (Pinus lambertina),isomeric withquercite .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun grey or green or brown mineral similar to mica and containing aluminum and potassium sulphates
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Pini, a mine in Saxony.]
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pine + -ite
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