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OLIVINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mineral consisting of magnesium iron silicate; a source of magnesium
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("olivine" is a kind of...):
mineral (solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition)
Meronyms (substance of "olivine"):
atomic number 12; magnesium; Mg (a light silver-white ductile bivalent metallic element; in pure form it burns with brilliant white flame; occurs naturally only in combination (as in magnesite and dolomite and carnallite and spinel and olivine))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "olivine"):
chrysolite (a brown or yellow-green olivine found in igneous and metamorphic rocks and used as a gemstone)
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