selenite
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Is selenite a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (mineralogy) A soft, glassy form of gypsum (chemical formula CaSO₄·2H₂O).Examples: "I followed them to my study, and found lying on my writing-table still, with the selenite paper-weight upon it, the sheet of work I had left on the afternoon of the opening of the cylinder."; "Glass windows replaced the old tiny windows of selenite (crystallized gypsum), and stovepipe replaced adobe chimneys."Synonyms: satin sparcountableuncountable
2. (inorganic chemistry) The anion SeO₃²⁻ derived from selenous acid; any salt or ester of selenous acid.countableuncountable
noun (English)
1. (science fiction) Synonym of Lunarian (“inhabitant of the Moon”).Examples: "My first impression was of some clumsy quadruped with lowered head. Then I perceived it was the slender pinched body and short and extremely attenuated bandy legs of a Selenite, with his head depressed between his shoulders."Synonyms: Lunarian
adj (English)
1. (science fiction) Pertaining to the inhabitants of Luna (Lunarians/Selenites).Examples: "a Selenite colony"; ""Come, Diana [a dog]," said he; "come, my girl! thou whose destiny will be marked in the cynegetic annals; […] thou who art rushing into interplanetary space, and wilt perhaps be the Eve of all Selenite dogs! come, Diana, come here.""not-comparable
Definition source: Wiktionary