Definition for CAV'O-LIN-ITE

CAV'O-LIN-ITE, n. [from Cavolini, a Neapolitan naturalist.]

A newly discovered Vesuvian mineral, of a hexahedral form, occurring in the interior of calcarious balls, accompanied with garnets, idocrase, mica, and granular pyroxene, lining the cavity of the geode, &c. – Journ. of Science.

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