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Definition: ZOISITE |
ZOISITENoun1. A grayish or whitish mineral occurring in orthorhombic, prismatic crystals, also in columnar masses. It is a silicate of alumina and lime, and is allied to epidote. |
Note: Zoisite \Zois"ite\, noun. [After its discoverer, Von Zois, an Austrian mineralogist.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | An orthorhombic mineral, CaAl3 (SiO4 )3 (OH)] ; epidote group; dimorphous with clinozoisite; vitreous or pearly; varicolored; a common rock-forming mineral in medium-grade metamorphicrocks. The rose-red variety has been called thulite. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: ZOISITE |
| English words defined with "ZOISITE": Saussurite. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ZOISITE": epidotization ♦ limurite ♦ saussuritization ♦ Tanzanite. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
zoisite | 27 |
ruby zoisite | 3 |
kunzite zoisite | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ZOISITE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Farsi | سنگ معدن (Ore). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | oisitezay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ZOISITE": zoisites. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "ZOISITE" (pronounced 'Zois"ite'): Arkite, Arsenopyrite, Braunite, Bronzite, Brookite, Brushite, Cabrerite, Chalcopyrite, Composite, Congenite, Cordite, Cushite, Danite, gahnite, Gibbsite, Glassite, Gnathite, graphite, Hicksite, Hussite, jadeite, Linarite, Linnaeite, Lyddite, marlite, Melanochroite, Miascite, Moroxite, Nerite, Perthite, Petzite, Prehnite, Priceite, Protomerite, Pyrite, Quartzite, ratite, Scaphite, scheelite, Semite, Servite, sporozoite, Struvite, Turfite, Voltzite, Zincite. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-i-o-s-t-z" | |
-2 letters: zitis. | |
-3 letters: site, size, ties, toes, zest, ziti, zits. | |
-4 letters: its, oes, ose, sei, set, sit, sot, tie, tis, toe, zit. | |
-5 letters: es, et, is, it, oe, os, si, so, ti, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-i-o-s-t-z" | |
+1 letter: zoisites. | |
+2 letters: epizoites, optimizes, sovietize. | |
+3 letters: diazotizes, epitomizes, epizootics, epizooties, eroticizes, gothicizes, moisturize, optimizers, poeticizes, routinizes, sovietized, sovietizes, zygosities. | |
+4 letters: axiomatizes, cosmeticize, dolomitizes, fictionizes, gleizations, historicize, hospitalize, moisturized, moisturizer, moisturizes, noncitizens, politicizes, prioritizes, rhizotomies, slivovitzes, sovietizing, suboptimize, volatilizes, zwitterions. | |
+5 letters: catholicizes, cosmeticized, cosmeticizes, dichotomizes, erotizations, exteriorizes, historicized, historicizes, hospitalized, hospitalizes, immortalizes, interiorizes, isoenzymatic, itemizations, moisturizers, nationalizes, orientalizes, overutilizes, photoionizes, rationalizes, realizations, romanticizes, suberization, suboptimized, suboptimizes, tropicalizes. | |
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