(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:06:43

Mei"o*nite (?), n. [Gr. smaller. So called in a allusion to the low pyramids of the crystals.] Min.

A member of the scapolite, group, occuring in glassy crystals on Monte Somma, near Naples.

 

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