russellite
russellite noun: an orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing bismuth, oxygen, and tungsten.
Noun (1)
russellite (uncountable)
Noun (2) capitalized: Russellite
Russellite (plural Russellites)
- A follower of Sir Thomas Russell, 1st Baronet (1841–1920), Irish politician and agrarian agitator.
- A follower of Charles Taze Russell (1852–1916), Christian restorationist minister from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, and founder of what is now known as the Bible Student movement.
- When Malone next looked round he was gone. "He is one of these Second-coming fanatics," he whispered to Enid. There are a lot of them—Christadelphians, Russellites, Bible Students and what-not.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Which Describes an Evening in Strange Company”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019
Forms of russellite
| plural | Russellites |
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Origin of russellite
Named after British mineral collector Sir Arthur Edward Ian Montague Russell (1878–1964), who held the mineral in his collection before it was donated for analysis, + -ite.
From Russell + -ite.
Questions about russellite
- What does russellite mean?
- Russellite means an orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing bismuth, oxygen, and tungsten.
- What part of speech is russellite?
- Russellite is a noun.
- What is the plural of russellite?
- The plural of russellite is Russellites.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: russellite (page history and authors); Russellite (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.
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