Phil"lips*ite (?), n. [So named after John Phillips, an English mineralogist.] Min. (a)

A hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime, and soda, a zeolitic mineral commonly occurring in complex twin crystals, often cruciform in shape; -- called also christianite.

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