Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A white variety of cyanite, found at Greiner in Tyrol. Also rhetizite.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Min.) A variety of the mineral cyanite.

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  • noun mineralogy A variety of the mineral kyanite.

Etymologies

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So called from Latin Rhaetia, Raetia, the Rhetian Alps, where it is found.

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