bronzite

English

Etymology

bronze +‎ -ite

Noun

bronzite (countable and uncountable, plural bronzites)

  1. (mineralogy) A variety of enstatite, often with a bronze-like lustre.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 bronzite in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Further reading
  • “Bronzite” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
  • “bronzite”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016.
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