sinopite
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French [Term?], from Latin sinopis (terra) (“a red earth or ocher found in Sinope”), from Sinope (“a town in Paphlagoma, on the Black Sea”).
Noun[edit]
sinopite (usually uncountable, plural sinopites)
- (mineralogy, archaic) sinopia (clay)
References[edit]
- “sinopite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.