Word.ws English Dictionary

chloritoid

chloritoid noun: a mixed iron, magnesium, and manganese silicate mineral of metamorphic origin, with the chemical formula (Fe²⁺,Mg,Mn)₂Al₄Si₂O₁₀(OH)₄.

Noun

chloritoid (countable and uncountable, plural chloritoids)

  1. A mixed iron, magnesium, and manganese silicate mineral of metamorphic origin, with the chemical formula (Fe²⁺,Mg,Mn)₂Al₄Si₂O₁₀(OH)₄.

Forms of chloritoid

pluralchloritoids

Origin of chloritoid

From chlorite + -oid.

Questions about chloritoid

What does chloritoid mean?
Chloritoid means a mixed iron, magnesium, and manganese silicate mineral of metamorphic origin, with the chemical formula (Fe²⁺,Mg,Mn)₂Al₄Si₂O₁₀(OH)₄.
What part of speech is chloritoid?
Chloritoid is a noun.
What is the plural of chloritoid?
The plural of chloritoid is chloritoids.

Words near chloritoid in the dictionary

  1. chloritization
  2. chloritize
  3. chloritized
  4. chloritizes
  5. chloritizing
  6. chloritoid
  7. chloritoids
  8. chloritoschist
  9. chlormadinone
  10. chlormagaluminite
  11. chlormanganokalite

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: chloritoid (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: “chloritoid.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/chloritoid. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.