agalmatolite
English
Etymology
Ancient Greek
Noun
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
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Portuguese
Noun
agalmatolite f (uncountable)
- Alternative form of agalmatolita