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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The commonest member of the chlorite family of minerals, occurring in monoclinic crystals with micaceous cleavage, also scaly and granular, usually of a deep-green color, rarely rose-red. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminium and magnesium. Also called
clinochlore .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A translucent mineral of a green color and micaceous structure, belonging to the chlorite group; a hydrous silicate of alumina, magnesia, and iron; -- called also
clinochlore .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A
translucent green chlorite mineral ofmicaceous structure ; ahydrous silicate ofalumina ,magnesia , andiron .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek fan + -lite.
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