Definition of Sagenite

1. n. Acicular rutile occurring in reticulated forms imbedded in quartz.

Definition of Sagenite

1. Noun. (minerology) acicular rutile occurring in reticulated forms embedded in quartz ¹

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Definition of Sagenite

1. a mineral of needle-like crystals [n -S]

Medical Definition of Sagenite

1. Acicular rutile occurring in reticulated forms imbedded in quartz. Origin: F. Sagenite, fr. L. Sagena a large net. See Saine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sagenite

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sagebrush mariposa tulip
sagebrushes
sagehen
sagehens
sagehood
sageland
sagelands
sagelike
sagely
sagene
sagenes
sageness
sagenesses
sagenite (current term)
sagenites
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sager
sages
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sageships
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sagey
saggar
saggar maker
saggar maker's bottom knocker
saggar maker's bottom knockers
saggard
saggards

Literary usage of Sagenite

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1869)
"(Johnston, Phil. Trans. 1840, p. 361.) sagenite. A variety of Rutile. (See TITANIUM.) SAGO. A kind of starch, prepared in the islands of the Indian ..."

2. The Minerals and Mineral Localities of North Carolina: Being Chapter I of by Frederick Augustus Genth, Washington Caruthers Kerr, North Carolina State Geologist (1881)
"Widow Batch's farm—sagenite; liquid bearing quartz crystals, with basal plane; tourmaline; rose quartz. Rev. Huffman's farm—Tessellated quartz crystals; ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1881)
"In the months of July and August of 1878 I discovered two new localities, in Burke county, for basal planes on quartz, three new localities for sagenite and ..."

4. British Petrography: With Special Reference to the Igneous Rocks by Jethro Justinian Harms Teall (1888)
"Saussure described under the name of sagenite certain curious reticulated ... should so closely resemble in character the sagenite-aggregates of Saussure. ..."

5. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1905)
"Such corundum might well be called " sagenite corundum," similar to the sagenite quartz. The Laurel Creek mine, Pine Mountain, Rabun County, Georgia, ..."

6. Petrology for Students: An Introduction to the Study of Rocks Under the by Alfred Harker (1897)
"... rutile (sagenite). Other constituents of some of these slates are secondary ... in others micaceous ilmenite occurs, with interpositions of sagenite. ..."

7. Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada: Déliberations by Royal Society of Canada (1890)
"and in the form of delicate acicular crystals, in quartz cavities at the Wallace mine, Lake Huron, province of Ontario. See also note to " sagenite." 21Y. ..."

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