mysorin
/mʌɪˈsɔːrɪn/Mineralogy. Now historical
noun
A mineral now recognized as an impure form of malachite, found in Karnataka (formerly Mysore) in southern India.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Andrew Ure (1778–1857), chemist. From French mysorine from the name of Mysore + -ine, with change in the form of the suffix in English.
- swimming costume
- swimming crab
- swimming hole
- swimmingly
- swimming pool
- swimming trunks
- swimsuit
- swimsuited
- swim trunks
- swimwear
- swim with (or against) the tide
- Swinburne, Algernon Charles
- swindle
- swindler
- Swindon
- swine
- swine fever
- swine flu
- swineherd
- swine vesicular disease
- swing
- swingback
- swingbin
- swingboat
- swing both ways