(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:40:08

Fi"o*rite (?), n. Min.

A variety of opal occuring in the cavities of volcanic tufa, in smooth and shining globular and botryoidal masses, having a pearly luster; -- so called from Fiora, in Ischia.

 

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