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pallasite

pallasite noun: a stony-iron meteorite embedded with glassy crystals of olivine.

Noun

pallasite (plural pallasites)

  1. A stony-iron meteorite embedded with glassy crystals of olivine.

Forms of pallasite

pluralpallasites

Origin of pallasite

From Pallas + -ite.

Questions about pallasite

What does pallasite mean?
Pallasite means a stony-iron meteorite embedded with glassy crystals of olivine.
What part of speech is pallasite?
Pallasite is a noun.
What is the plural of pallasite?
The plural of pallasite is pallasites.

Words near pallasite in the dictionary

  1. Pallas's leaf warblers
  2. Pallas's long-tongued bat
  3. Pallas's long-tongued bats
  4. Pallas's sandgrouse
  5. Pallas's sandgrouses
  6. pallasite
  7. pallasites
  8. pallatic
  9. Pallav
  10. Pallava
  11. Pallavan

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