"melilite" meaning in English

See melilite in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: melilites [plural]
Etymology: Ancient Greek μέλι (méli, “honey”) + -lite. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|grc|μέλι||honey}} Ancient Greek μέλι (méli, “honey”), {{suffix|en||lite}} + -lite Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} melilite (countable and uncountable, plural melilites)
  1. (mineralogy) any mineral consisting of a solid solution of gehlenite (Ca₂Al₂SiO₇) and akermanite (Ca₂MgSi₂O₇) Wikipedia link: melilite Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Minerals

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "μέλι",
        "4": "",
        "5": "honey"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek μέλι (méli, “honey”)",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "",
        "3": "lite"
      },
      "expansion": "+ -lite",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Ancient Greek μέλι (méli, “honey”) + -lite.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "melilites",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "melilite (countable and uncountable, plural melilites)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -lite",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English undefined derivations",
          "parents": [
            "Undefined derivations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Minerals",
          "orig": "en:Minerals",
          "parents": [
            "Matter",
            "Mineralogy",
            "Chemistry",
            "Nature",
            "Geology",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Earth sciences",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "any mineral consisting of a solid solution of gehlenite (Ca₂Al₂SiO₇) and akermanite (Ca₂MgSi₂O₇)"
      ],
      "id": "en-melilite-en-noun-WeH4DVii",
      "links": [
        [
          "mineralogy",
          "mineralogy"
        ],
        [
          "mineral",
          "mineral"
        ],
        [
          "solid solution",
          "solid solution"
        ],
        [
          "gehlenite",
          "gehlenite"
        ],
        [
          "akermanite",
          "akermanite"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(mineralogy) any mineral consisting of a solid solution of gehlenite (Ca₂Al₂SiO₇) and akermanite (Ca₂MgSi₂O₇)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "chemistry",
        "geography",
        "geology",
        "mineralogy",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "melilite"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "melilite"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "μέλι",
        "4": "",
        "5": "honey"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek μέλι (méli, “honey”)",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "",
        "3": "lite"
      },
      "expansion": "+ -lite",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Ancient Greek μέλι (méli, “honey”) + -lite.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "melilites",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "melilite (countable and uncountable, plural melilites)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
        "English terms suffixed with -lite",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "English undefined derivations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Minerals"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "any mineral consisting of a solid solution of gehlenite (Ca₂Al₂SiO₇) and akermanite (Ca₂MgSi₂O₇)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mineralogy",
          "mineralogy"
        ],
        [
          "mineral",
          "mineral"
        ],
        [
          "solid solution",
          "solid solution"
        ],
        [
          "gehlenite",
          "gehlenite"
        ],
        [
          "akermanite",
          "akermanite"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(mineralogy) any mineral consisting of a solid solution of gehlenite (Ca₂Al₂SiO₇) and akermanite (Ca₂MgSi₂O₇)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "chemistry",
        "geography",
        "geology",
        "mineralogy",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "melilite"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "melilite"
}

Download raw JSONL data for melilite meaning in English (1.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (95d2be1 and 64224ec). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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.