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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Acicular crystals of rutile crossing each other at angles of about 60°, and giving a reticulated appearance, whence the name (see
rutile ); also, rock-crystal inclosing a fine web of rutile needles; sometimes, also, similar acicular forms of some other mineral, as asbestos, tourmalin, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) Acicular rutile occurring in reticulated forms imbedded in quartz.
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- noun mineralogy
acicular rutile occurring inreticulated formsembedded inquartz
Etymologies
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French sagénite, from Latin sagena a large net. See saine.
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