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beauxite

beauxite is the archaic form of bauxite.

Meaning of bauxite

Noun

bauxite (countable and uncountable, plural bauxites)

  1. The principal ore of aluminium; a clay-like mineral, being a mixture of hydrated oxides and hydroxides.
    • A thin red stream poured down one of the rises, snaking its way around trees; a river turned red with bauxite?2021, Leone Ross, This One Sky Day, Faber & Faber Limited, page 152

Forms of beauxite

pluralbeauxites

Questions about beauxite

What is beauxite the archaic form of?
Beauxite is the archaic form of bauxite.

Words near beauxite in the dictionary

  1. beaux idéals
  2. beaux joueurs
  3. beaux mondes
  4. beaux sabreurs
  5. beaux-arts
  6. beauxite
  7. beauxites
  8. beav
  9. beavage
  10. Beavan
  11. beave

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