diasporite

diasporite

English

Etymology 1

diaspore +‎ -ite

Noun

diasporite (plural diasporites)

1. (petrology) A kind of metamorphic rock that contains diaspore.
   • 1963, Central Treaty Organization, Symposium on Industrial Rocks and Minerals:

     Diasporites are also metamorphic rocks, which contain mainly diaspore along with hematite, chloritoid and margarite. They show the same texture as the emery deposits and are found in the same geological position in Southwest Anatolia.

Etymology 2

diaspora +‎ -ite

Noun

diasporite (plural diasporites)

1. A diasporan, a member of a diaspora.
   • 2010, Dan Miron, From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking, Stanford University Press (→ISBN), page 400:

     […] as much as diasporites (such as the Bundists and the folkists), socialists as much as capitalists, Marxists as much as utopianists. Whatever all these “guides of the Jewish perplexed” derided and despised, he accepted, […]

   • 2013, Emily Stone, Did Jew Know?: A Handy Primer on the Customs, Culture & Practice of the Chosen People, Chronicle Books (→ISBN), page 16:

     These diasporites, some of whom arrived in India as early as 2,500 years ago, […]