Diasporite

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 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

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"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

Etymology 1

From diaspore + -ite.

Etymology 2

From diaspora + -ite.

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