"wollastonite" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: wollastonites [plural]
Etymology: From Wollaston + -ite, after William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist and physicist. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|Wollaston|ite}} Wollaston + -ite Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} wollastonite (countable and uncountable, plural wollastonites)
  1. (mineralogy) A grey inosilicate mineral, mostly calcium silicate, CaSiO₃, found deposited in limestone. Wikipedia link: wollastonite Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Minerals Translations (grey inosilicate mineral): wollastonita (Basque), 硅灰石 (Chinese Mandarin), wollastoniet (Dutch), vollastoniit (Estonian), wollastoniitti (Finnish), wollastonite (French), Wollastonit (German), βολαστονίτης (volastonítis) [masculine] (Greek), 珪灰石 (Japanese), wollastonitt (Norwegian), wollastonit (Polish), wollastonite [feminine] (Portuguese), wollastonit (Romanian), волластонит (vollastonit) (Russian), воластонит [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), volastonit [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), wollastonit [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), wollastonita [feminine] (Spanish)

Noun [French]

Forms: wollastonites [plural]
Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} wollastonite f (plural wollastonites)
  1. (mineralogy) wollastonite Tags: feminine Categories (topical): Minerals

Noun [Portuguese]

Head templates: {{pt-noun|f|-}} wollastonite f (uncountable), {{tlb|pt|European Portuguese spelling}} (European Portuguese spelling)
  1. (mineralogy) wollastonite (a grey inosilicate mineral) Tags: feminine, uncountable Categories (topical): Minerals Synonyms: volastonite, wollastonita, volastonita [Brazil]

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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        [
          "mineralogy",
          "mineralogy"
        ],
        [
          "wollastonite",
          "wollastonite#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(mineralogy) wollastonite (a grey inosilicate mineral)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "chemistry",
        "geography",
        "geology",
        "mineralogy",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "volastonite"
    },
    {
      "word": "wollastonita"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ],
      "word": "volastonita"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wollastonite"
}

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