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melonite

melonite noun: a nickel telluride mineral.

Noun

melonite (uncountable)

  1. A nickel telluride mineral.

Origin of melonite

From Melones + -ite, after the Melones and Stanislaus mine in Calaveras County, California.

Questions about melonite

What does melonite mean?
Melonite means a nickel telluride mineral.
What part of speech is melonite?
Melonite is a noun.

Words near melonite in the dictionary

  1. Melonie
  2. melonious
  3. Melonis
  4. melonist
  5. melonists
  6. melonite
  7. melonless
  8. melonlike
  9. melonous
  10. melonpan
  11. melonries

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