Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See menachanite, menachanitic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) An iron-black or steel-gray mineral, consisting chiefly of the oxides of iron and titanium. It is commonly massive, but occurs also in rhombohedral crystals. Called also
titanic iron ore , andilmenite .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A black or steel-grey
mineral consisting chiefly of theoxides ofiron andtitanium .
Etymologies
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Menaccan + -ite, after the place in Cornwall where it was first found.
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