limonite

limonite (countable and uncountable, plural limonites)

1. (mineralogy) Any of several natural hydrous iron oxides; often a mixture of goethite and hemite with clays and manganese oxide.

   Hypernym: iron ore

• limonitic

• David Barthelmy (1997–2025) “Limonite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “limonite”, in Mindat.org‎^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2025.

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limonite f (plural limonites)

1. limonite

• “limonite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /li.moˈni.te/
• Rhymes: -ite
• Hyphenation: li‧mo‧nì‧te

limonite f (plural limoniti)

1. (mineralogy) limonite

• limonitico

• limoneti, metilino, milonite