menilite
English
editEtymology
editFrench ménilite, because it is found at Ménilmontant, in Paris.
Noun
editmenilite (plural menilites)
- (mineralogy) An opal.
Further reading
edit- “menilite”, in Mindat.org[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “menilite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)