mussite

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English

Etymology

From Mussa +‎ -ite, since it comes from the Mussa Alp in Piedmont.

Noun

mussite (plural mussites)

  1. (mineralogy) A variety of pyroxene; diopside.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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