durain
American
[door-eyn, dyoor-]
/ ˈdʊər eɪn, ˈdyʊər- /
noun
Mineralogy.
Etymology
Origin of durain
1915–20; < Latin dūr ( us ) hard + -ain, from fusain, by analysis as a suffix
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