sinopite

From French [Term?], from Latin sinopis (terra) (“a red earth or ocher found in Sinope”), from Sinope (“a town in Paphlagoma, on the Black Sea”).

sinopite (usually uncountable, plural sinopites)

1. (mineralogy, archaic) sinopia (clay)

• “sinopite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• pointies