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omphacite

[ om-fuh-sahyt ]

noun

Mineralogy.
  1. a pale-green variety of pyroxene similar to olivine, found in eclogite.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of omphacite1

1820–30; < German Omphazit < Greek dz󲹰ī́ŧ green stone, equivalent to omphak- (stem of ó󲹳 ) unripe grape + -īŧ -ite 1
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Omphacite, om′fa-sīt, n. a grass-green granular variety of pyroxene, one of the constituents of eclogite.—adj.

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With omphacite and smaragdite, garnet forms the peculiar rock called eclogite.

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