(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:25:43

Cey"lan*ite (?), n. [F., fr. Ceylan Ceylon.] Min.

A dingy blue, or grayish black, variety of spinel. It is also called pleonaste.

[Written also ceylonite.]

 

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