Definitions for melilites

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melilites mel·i·lite

Spelling: [mel-uh-lahyt]

IPA: /ˈmɛl əˌlaɪt/

Melilites is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 236 anagrams from letters in melilites (eeiillmst).

Definitions for melilites

noun

1. a sorosilicate mineral group, consisting chiefly of sodium, calcium, and aluminum silicates, occurring in igneous rocks.

Origin of melilites

1790-1800; New Latin melilithus, equivalent to Greek méli honey + líthos -lite

Examples for melilites

melilite, a lime-alumina-silicate, is characteristic of certain very basic rocks, the melilite-basalts.