sagenite

English

Etymology

From French sagénite, from Latin sagena (“a large net”). See saine.

Noun

sagenite (plural sagenites)

  1. (mineralogy) acicular rutile occurring in reticulated forms embedded in quartz

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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

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