smaragdite

[smuh-rag-dahyt]

noun Mineralogy.

a green, foliated member of the amphibole group.

Origin of smaragdite

1795–1805; < French < Greek smáragd(os) smaragd + French -ite -ite¹

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Historical Examples of smaragdite

With omphacite and smaragdite, garnet forms the peculiar rock called eclogite.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4
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Eclogite, ek′loj-īt, n. a crystalline rock, composed of smaragdite and red garnet.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M)
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British Dictionary definitions for smaragdite

smaragdite

noun

a green fibrous amphibole mineral

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