"thinolite" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: thinolites [plural]
Etymology: Ancient Greek θίνα (thína, “dune, shore”) + -lite. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|grc|θίνα||dune, shore}} Ancient Greek θίνα (thína, “dune, shore”), {{suffix|en||lite}} + -lite Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} thinolite (usually uncountable, plural thinolites)
  1. (mineralogy) A calcareous tufa, partly crystalline, occurring on a large scale as a shore deposit about the Quaternary lake basins of Nevada. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Minerals

Inflected forms

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