essonite
English
Etymology
Named from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek inferior, because not so hard as some minerals it resembles (e.g. hyacinth).
Noun
essonite (plural essonites)
- (mineralogy) Cinnamon stone, a 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “essonite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Italian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Derived from Ancient Greek ἥσσων (hḗssōn, “inferior”) + -ite.
Pronunciation
Noun
essonite f (countable and uncountable, plural essoniti)
- (mineralogy) essonite, cinnamon stone (reddish-brown variety of garnet)
- Synonym: giacinto di Ceylon
- Hypernym: grossularia
- Coordinate terms: granato bianco, succinite
References
- essonite in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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