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limonitic

Variant of limonite

noun

a brownish, amorphous mineral mixture of several iron oxides, esp. goethite, used as a coloring agent: sometimes an ore of iron

Origin: < Gr leimōn, meadow, orig., low ground (for IE base see limb) + -ite

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limonitic adjective

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