flos-ferri

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin , meaning "flower of iron".

Noun

flos-ferri (uncountable)

  1. (mineralogy) A variety of aragonite occurring in delicate white coralloidal forms, common in beds of iron ore.

References

Flos Ferri”, in Mindat.org, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 flos-ferri”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)