c 3 h 4 r 1 y 4 s 1 o 1 l 1 i 1 t 1 e 1
10 letters · 18 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a brown or yellow-green olivine found in igneous and metamorphic rocks and used as a gemstone
originFrom Middle English crisolite, from Old French crisolite, from Medieval Latin crisolitus, Latin chrȳsolithus, from Ancient Greek χρῡσόλιθος (khrūsólithos), from χρῡσός (khrūsós, “gold”) + λίθος (líthos, “stone”). By surface analysis, chryso- (“pertaining to gold”) + -lite (“pertaining to rocks, minerals”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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