Word.ws English Dictionary

pinalite

pinalite noun: an orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing chlorine, lead, oxygen, and tungsten.

Noun

pinalite

  1. An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing chlorine, lead, oxygen, and tungsten.

Origin of pinalite

Named for type locality Pinal County, Arizona + -ite.

Questions about pinalite

What does pinalite mean?
Pinalite means an orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing chlorine, lead, oxygen, and tungsten.
What part of speech is pinalite?
Pinalite is a noun.

Words near pinalite in the dictionary

  1. pinakone
  2. pinakones
  3. Pinal
  4. Pinal County
  5. Pinal Mountains
  6. pinalite
  7. Pinals
  8. Pinamalayan
  9. Pinamanaan
  10. Pinamanculan
  11. Pinamihagan

Source and license

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