rubicelle

English

Etymology

Compare French rubacelle, rubicelle, from Latin rubeus (“red, reddish”).

Noun

rubicelle (plural rubicelles)

1. (mineralogy) An orange-red spinel.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “rubicelle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Rubicelle”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “rubicelle”, in Mindat.org‎^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.

French

Noun

rubicelle f (plural rubicelles)

1. Alternative spelling of rubacelle