colophonite
English
Etymology
colophony + -ite, from the resemblance in colour.
Noun
colophonite (usually uncountable, plural colophonites)
- (mineralogy) A coarsely granular variety of garnet.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “colophonite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)