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Schorl

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Tourmaline, especially black tourmaline.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The most common variety of tourmaline.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Black tourmaline.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A term used by early mineralogists to embrace a large group of crystallized minerals: later limited to common black tourmalin.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. black tourmaline

Word Usage

"The lowest range above Djidda is calcareous; but its rocks soon change into gneiss, and a species of granite, with schorl in the place of feldspath, accompanied by predominant masses of quartz, and some mica."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

tourmaline

Cross Reference

violet schorl blue schorl red schorl white schorl schorl rock

Variant

shorl