agalmatolite
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]agalmatolite (countable and uncountable, plural agalmatolites)
- (mineralogy) A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite.
Translations
[edit]soft, compact stone
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “agalmatolite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]agalmatolite f (uncountable)
- European Portuguese standard spelling of agalmatolita.
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