cimolite

• Cimolite
• cymolite (erroneous, rare)

First attested in 1801; formed as Latin Cimōlia (from the Ancient Greek Κιμωλία γῆ (Kimōlía gê, “earth of Kimolos”) — Cimōlus being the former name of Argentiera) + English -ite.

cimolite (countable and uncountable, plural cimolites)

1. (mineralogy) A soft clayey mineral of whitish or greyish colour.

• “cimolite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• “cimolite”, in Mindat.org, Keswick, Va.: Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2026.