chalybeate

[ kuh-lib-ee-it, -eyt ]

adjective
  1. containing or impregnated with salts of iron, as a mineral spring or medicine.

noun
  1. a chalybeate water, medicine, or the like.

Origin of chalybeate

1
1625–35; <New Latin chalybēātus,Latin chalybē(ïus) of steel (<Greek chalybēís, equivalent to chalybē-, variant stem of chályps iron + -is adj. suffix) + -ātus-ate1; see chalybite

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chalybeate

/ (kəˈlɪbɪɪt) /


adjective
  1. containing or impregnated with iron salts

noun
  1. any drug containing or tasting of iron

Origin of chalybeate

1
C17: from New Latin chalybēātus, ultimately from khalups iron

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