rhaetizite
English
Etymology
So called from Latin Rhaetia, Raetia (“the Rhetian Alps”), where it is found, + -ite.
Noun
rhaetizite (uncountable)
- (mineralogy) A variety of the mineral kyanite.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 rhaetizite in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)