rhodochrosite
noun
rho·do·chro·site ˌrō-də-ˈkrō-ˌsīt 
: a rose-red mineral consisting essentially of manganese carbonate
Word History
Etymology
borrowed from German Rhodochrosit, from Greek rhodóchrōs or rhodóchroos "rose-colored" (from rhodo- rhodo- + -chrōs, -chroos, adjectival derivatives of chrṓs "skin, flesh, complexion, color") + German -it -ite entry 1 — more at -chrome
Note: The mineral was named by the German mineralogist Johann Friedrich Ludwig Hausmann (1782-1859) in Handbuch der Mineralogie, 1. Band (Göttingen, 1813), pp. 1081-82.
First Known Use
1823, in the meaning defined above
- self-existence
- self-existences
- self-existent
- self-experience
- self-explaining
- self-explanatory
- self-exploration
- self-explorations
- self-expression
- self-expressive
- self-extinction
- self-extinctions
- self-faced
- self-fed
- self-feed
- self-feeder
- self-feeding
- self-feeling
- self-fer
- self-fertile
- self-fertility
- self-fertilization
- self-fertilize
- self-finance
- self-financed