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单词 acanticone
释义

acanticonen.

Forms: 1800s acanthicone, 1800s acanticon, 1800s acanticone, 1800s akanticon, 1800s akanticone.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French akanticone, acanticone.
Etymology: < French †akanticone ( R. J. Haüy Traité de minéralogie (1801) III. 102; 1800 as †akanthikone (B. J. d'Andrada, in Jrnl. de physique 51 240); 1805 or earlier as †acanticone, 1811 or earlier as †acanthicone) < ancient Greek ἀκανθίς goldfinch ( < ἄκανθα thorn (see acanthus n., so called as it lives among thorns) + -ίς -id suffix2) + κονία powder (see conite n.), so called as the colour of the powdered mineral is yellow. Compare German †Acanticone, †Akanthicone (both 1801 or earlier), †Akantikone (1804 or earlier).In forms with medial -th- in French, German, and English probably by association with acanthus n. and its French and German parallels.
Mineralogy. Obsolete.
A mineral now regarded as a form of epidote.
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1801 B. J. d'Andrada in Jrnl. Nat. Philos. Aug. 194 Acanthicone is in some degree pyro-electrical.
1814 4th Rep. Commissioners Bogs Ireland 177 in Parl. Papers 1813–14 (H.C. 131) VI. ii. 167 He found a large mass of acanticon also on the east side, but not in situ.
1859 J. Dana Rudimentary Treat. Mineral. (ed. 4) 47 Idocrase (Vesuvian; Baikalite; Acanticone). This mineral does not differ much in composition from some of the garnets.
1885 A. Ramsay Rudim. Mineral. (ed. 3) ix. 265 Thulite, Withamite, Akanticon, Delphinite, Arendalite, Achmatite, and Tautolite are the names of other varieties of epidote.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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