xylonite
English
Etymology
From an old trademark, presumably xylo- + -ite.
Noun
xylonite (countable and uncountable, plural xylonites)
- (obsolete) Celluloid.
- 1907, William Page, The Victoria history of the county of Suffolk, Volume 2:
- The youngest of the industries of Suffolk is the manufacture of xylonite.
- 1920, James Duff Brown, William Charles Berwick Sayers, Manual of library economy
- A simple, effective shelf label-holder is made from strips of transparent xylonite bent in a rectangular form...
- 1923, George Handley Knibbs, Presidential Address to the Australian Association for the Advancement of Science at the New Zealand Meeting (page 5)
- […] the perfumes and flavouring-substances, the explosives, the viscoses, celluloids, xylonites, bakelites, &c., […]