moroxite
English
editEtymology
editRelated to Ancient Greek word for a sort of pipe clay.
Noun
editmoroxite (uncountable)
- (mineralogy, archaic) A greenish-blue variety of apatite.
References
edit- “moroxite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.