† mimositen.1
Palaeontology. Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
The fossilized remains of a plant of the mimosa family. N.E.D. (1906) gives the pronunciation as (mimōu·səit) 
/mɪˈməʊsaɪt/.
/mɪˈməʊsaɪt/.ΚΠ
1859 D. Page Handbk. Geol. Terms 253 Mimosites, the term applied to fossil seed-pods apparently belonging to plants of the Mimosa family. They occur in the London Clay, and in other tertiary strata.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
mimositen.2
/mᵻˈməʊsʌɪt/, U.S. /məˈmoʊˌsaɪt/ Geology. Now chiefly historical.
= mimose n.
ΚΠ
1920 A. Holmes Nomencl. Petrol. 159 Mimosite, a melanocratic dolerite rich in augite and ilmenite.
1937 A. Johannsen Descr. Petrogr. Igneous Rocks III. 303 The name melabasalt was given by me in 1919 to extrusive rocks of the gabbro family which contain more melanocrates than leucocrates... Haüy's term mimose probably covered the same rocks... Cordier used the form mimosite.
1948 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 59 1375 The rocks include olivine basalt,..picrite-basalt of the mimosite type containing few and small phenocrysts,..melilite-nepheline basalt, and analcite basanite.
1983 S. I. Tomkeieff Dict. Petrol. 366/2 Mimosite, Cordier's name for mimose.
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- mangosteen tree
- mangosteens
- mangrass
- mangripped
- mangrove
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- mangrove bush
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- mangrove crab
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- mangrove family
- mangrove fly
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- mangrove grape
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