xylonite

xylonite

English

Etymology

From an old trademark, presumably xylo- +‎ -ite.

Noun

xylonite (countable and uncountable, plural xylonites)

1. (obsolete) Celluloid.
   • 1907, William Page, The Victoria history of the county of Suffolk, Volume 2

     The youngest of the industries of Suffolk is the manufacture of xylonite.

   • 1920, James Duff Brown, William Charles Berwick Sayers, Manual of library economy

     A simple, effective shelf label-holder is made from strips of transparent xylonite bent in a rectangular form...

   • 1923, George Handley Knibbs, Presidential Address to the Australian Association for the Advancement of Science at the New Zealand Meeting (page 5)

     […] the perfumes and flavouring-substances, the explosives, the viscoses, celluloids, xylonites, bakelites, &c., […]

Anagrams

• xylitone