Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rare mineral, a silicate of iron, zinc, manganese, and glucinum, containing about 6 per cent. of sulphur, found in eastern Massachusetts, in grains and isometric crystals in granite.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A mineral occuring in octahedral crystals, also massive, of a reddish color. It is a silicate of iron, zinc manganese, and glucinum, containing sulphur.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy An isometric-hextetrahedral
mineral containingberyllium ,iron ,oxygen ,silicon , andsulfur .
Etymologies
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Dana + -lite, after James Dwight Dana.
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