Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An Anglicized form of the Spanish name (salitre) for sodium nitrate which has undergone a single crystallization at the site of its natural occurrence in the district of Tarapacá, Chile.
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Conulusj for which it has been mistaken, but which is described as smooth, and much resembling Tr.Zizyphinus. erythro - Tr. testa imperforata, conica, lajvi, transvei: saliter stri -
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