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chrysolites

chrysolites is the plural of chrysolite.

Meaning of chrysolite

Noun

chrysolite (countable and uncountable, plural chrysolites)

  1. Originally, any of various green-coloured gems; later specifically peridot.
    • Fran. Rueus[…]say as much of the chrysolite, a friend of wisdome, an enemy to folly.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II...

Questions about chrysolites

What is chrysolites the plural of?
Chrysolites is the plural of chrysolite.

Words near chrysolites in the dictionary

  1. chrysoidines
  2. chrysoine resorcinol
  3. chrysolaminaran
  4. chrysolaminarin
  5. chrysolite
  6. chrysolites
  7. chrysolitic
  8. chrysology
  9. chrysom
  10. chrysome
  11. chrysomelid

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