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-lite (līt)

stone: used in the names of minerals, rocks, and fossils chrysolite, cryolite

Etymology: Fr, for -lithe: see -lith

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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