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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a grey or greenish-blue mineral consisting of aluminum silicate in crystalline form; occurs in metaphoric rock, used as a refractory;
[syn: kyanite, cyanite]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Kyanite \Ky"a*nite\, n. See Cyanite. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cyanite \Cy"a*nite\ (-n?t), n. [See Cyanic.] (Min.) A mineral occuring in thin-bladed crystals and crystalline aggregates, of a sky-blue color. It is a silicate of aluminium. [Written also kyanite.] [1913 Webster] cyanobacterium
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

kyanite n 1: a grey or greenish-blue mineral consisting of aluminum silicate in crystalline form; occurs in metaphoric rock, used as a refractory [syn: kyanite, cyanite]