olivine

See also: Olivine

English

Olivine

Etymology

From olive +‎ -in, later remodelled after -ine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɒlɪviːn/

Noun

olivine (countable and uncountable, plural olivines)

1. (mineralogy, geology) Any of a group of olive green magnesium-iron silicate minerals that crystallize in the orthorhombic system.
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 51:

     The olivine crystals in most basalts are imperfect, lacking clear crystal faces.

Synonyms

• chrysolite

Derived terms

• olivinic (adjective)
• olivinitic

Translations

family of minerals forming orthorhombic crystals

• Catalan: olivina f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 橄欖石／橄榄石 (zh) (gǎnlǎnshí), 橄榄石 (zh) (gǎnlǎnshí)

• Esperanto: olivino
• Estonian: oliviin
• Finnish: oliviini
• French: olivine (fr) f
• Galician: olivina f
• German: Olivin (de) m
• Icelandic: ólivín n
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• Italian: olivina (it) f
• Japanese: カンラン石 (かんらんせき, kanranseki), 橄欖石 (かんらんせき, kanranseki)
• Korean: 감람석 (gamnamseok)
• Kurdish:
• Navajo: tsé dootłʼizh
• Portuguese: olivina f
• Russian: оливи́н (ru) m (olivín)
• Spanish: olivino (es)
• Tagalog: olibino

See also

• bluestone
• olivine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• violine

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French

Noun

olivine f (plural olivines)

1. olivine

Derived terms

• olivinique

Further reading

• “olivine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Noun

olivine f

1. plural of olivina