agalmatolite

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek

Noun

agalmatolite (countable and uncountable, plural agalmatolites)

  1. (mineralogy) A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite.

Translations

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “agalmatolite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Portuguese

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.ɡaw.ma.toˈli.t͡ʃi/ [a.ɡaʊ̯.ma.toˈli.t͡ʃi]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /a.ɡaw.ma.toˈli.te/ [a.ɡaʊ̯.ma.toˈli.te]
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.ɡal.mɐ.tuˈli.tɨ/ [ɐ.ɣaɫ.mɐ.tuˈli.tɨ]

Noun

agalmatolite f (uncountable)

  1. European Portuguese standard spelling of agalmatolita.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.