salite

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Named for type locality Sala, Sweden, +‎ -ite.

Noun

salite

  1. (mineralogy) A massive lamellar variety of pyroxene, of a dingy green colour.

Synonyms

Further reading
  • “salite”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016.
  • “Diopside”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for salite in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Esperanto

Adverb

salite

  1. past adverbial passive participle of sali

Italian

Noun

salite f pl

  1. plural of salita

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

salīte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of saliō
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