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Webster 1913 Edition

(mĕl′ȧ-nīt)

Noun.

[Gr.

μέλας

μέλανος

, black: cf. F.

mélanite

(Min.)

A black variety of garnet.

Noun.

[Gr. black.] A mineral, a variety of garnet, of a velvet black or grayish black, occurring always in crystals of a dodecahedral form.

Melanite is perfectly opake. It is found among volcanic substances.

melanite ‎(countable and uncountable, plural melanites)