Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A variety of scapolite.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) The common grayish or white variety of soapolite.
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- noun mineralogy The common greyish or white variety of soapolite.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Abraham Gottlob Werner.]
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See Wernerian.
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Grossular discovery and vesuvianite contact metamorphism of limestone, diopside, wollastonite and wernerite.
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