Ironstone

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A hard white pottery.
  • n. A rock containing enough iron to permit commercial extraction; an iron ore.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any ore of iron which is impure through the admixture of silica or clay.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A hard, earthy ore of iron.
  • ironstone china.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Any ore of iron which is impure through the admixture of silica or clay.
    • Word Usage
    "In semiarid and subhumid areas with acidic soils a rock-like layer called ironstone can form (Box 9.4)."
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