"bauxite" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈbɔːksaɪt/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-bauxite.wav [US] Forms: bauxites [plural]
Etymology: Derived from the name of Les Baux in France, plus + -ite. The /ks/ in the English pronunciation is from a spelling pronunciation. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en||ite}} + -ite, {{att|en|Is it really, though? It's /ks/ in French too.}} Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} bauxite (countable and uncountable, plural bauxites)
  1. The principal ore of aluminium; a clay-like mineral, being a mixture of hydrated oxides and hydroxides. Wikipedia link: Les Baux, bauxite Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Aluminium Translations (ore): բոքսիտ (bokʻsit) (Armenian), боксит (boksit) (Bulgarian), bauxita [feminine] (Catalan), 鋁土礦 (Chinese Mandarin), 铝土矿 (lǚtǔkuàng) (Chinese Mandarin), bauxit [masculine] (Czech), bauxit [common-gender] (Danish), bauxiet [neuter] (Dutch), baŭksito (Esperanto), boksiit (Estonian), bauksiitti (Finnish), bauxite [feminine] (French), Bauxit [masculine] (German), βωξίτης (voxítis) [masculine] (Greek), bauxit (Hungarian), bauxite [feminine] (Italian), 鉄礬土 (tetsubando) (alt: てつばんど) (Japanese), ボーキサイト (bōkisaito) (Japanese), boksitas (Lithuanian), бокси́т (boksít) [masculine] (Macedonian), bauksit (Malay), ബോക്സൈറ്റ് (bōksaiṟṟŭ) (Malayalam), bauksitt [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), bauxitt [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), bauksitt [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), bauxitt [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), boksyt [masculine] (Polish), bauxita [Brazil, feminine] (Portuguese), bauxite [Portugal, feminine] (Portuguese), бокси́т (boksít) [masculine] (Russian), boksit [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), bauxita [feminine] (Spanish), bauxit [common-gender] (Swedish), bawhita (Tagalog), บ็อกไซต์ (bòksai) (Thai)

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.