cimolite

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English

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Etymology

First attested in 1801; formed as Latin Cimōlia (from the Ancient Greek Κιμωλία γῆ (Kimōlía gê, “earth of Cimolus”) — Cimōlus being the former name of Argentiera) + English -ite.

Noun

cimolite (countable and uncountable, plural cimolites)

  1. (mineralogy) A soft clayey mineral of whitish or greyish colour.

Further reading

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cimolite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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