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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A dark-green variety of pyroxene, found in the valley of Fassa in Tyrol.

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

  • noun (Min.) A variety of pyroxene, from the valley of Fassa, in the Tyrol.

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  • noun mineralogy A variety of pyroxene.

Etymologies

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Fassa +‎ -ite, after a valley in the Tyrol.

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