Word.ws English Dictionary

chabazite

/ˈkæbəzaɪt/

chabazite noun: any of several zeolite minerals that occur in basaltic rocks.

chabazite: any of several zeolite minerals that occur in basaltic rocks
Image: Dave Dyet http:/ http:/, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

chabazite (plural chabazites)

  1. Any of several zeolite minerals that occur in basaltic rocks.

Forms of chabazite

pluralchabazites

Origin of chabazite

From French chabasie, coined by Louis-Augustin Bosc d'Antic from Ancient Greek χαβάζιος (khabázios), apparently an error for χαλάζιος (khalázios, “a kind of precious stone”) (which is probably from χάλαζα (khálaza, “hail”), due to looking like a hailstone), one of twenty species of stones mentioned in the poem ascribed to Orpheus. See chalaza and chalazion.

Questions about chabazite

What does chabazite mean?
Chabazite means any of several zeolite minerals that occur in basaltic rocks.
What part of speech is chabazite?
Chabazite is a noun.
How do you pronounce chabazite?
Chabazite is pronounced /ˈkæbəzaɪt/.
What is the plural of chabazite?
The plural of chabazite is chabazites.

Words near chabazite in the dictionary

  1. Chabane
  2. chabasie
  3. chabasies
  4. chabasite
  5. chabasites
  6. chabazite
  7. chabazites
  8. Chabbi
  9. Chabbis
  10. Chabert
  11. Chaberts

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: chabazite (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “chabazite.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/chabazite. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.