Diasporite
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A kind of metamorphic rock that contains diaspore.
"Diasporites are also metamorphic rocks, which contain mainly diaspore along with hematite, chloritoid and margarite. They show the same texture as the emery deposits and are found in the same geological position in Southwest Anatolia."
- 2 A diasporan, a member of a diaspora.
"[…] as much as diasporites (such as the Bundists and the folkists), socialists as much as capitalists, Marxists as much as utopianists. Whatever all these “guides of the Jewish perplexed” derided and despised, he accepted, […]"
Example
More examples"Diasporites are also metamorphic rocks, which contain mainly diaspore along with hematite, chloritoid and margarite. They show the same texture as the emery deposits and are found in the same geological position in Southwest Anatolia."
Etymology
From diaspore + -ite.
From diaspora + -ite.
More for "diasporite"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.