I followed them to my study, and found lying on my writing-table still, with the selenite paper-weight upon it, the sheet of work I had left on the afternoon of the opening of the cylinder.
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Selenite
//ˈsɛlɪnaɪt//
Synonyms for "selenite" (8 found)
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Noun(2 words)
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Translations
21 translations across 11 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- селенит noun (gypsum)
- селенит noun (from selenous acid)
Catalan
1 entries- selenita noun (gypsum)
Finnish
2 entries- seleniitti noun (gypsum)
- seleniitti noun (from selenous acid)
French
2 entries- sélénite noun (gypsum)
- sélénite noun (from selenous acid)
German
4 entries- Frauenglas noun (gypsum)
- Marienglas noun (gypsum)
- Selenit noun (gypsum)
- Selenit noun (from selenous acid)
Irish
1 entries- seiléinít noun (from selenous acid)
Italian
2 entries- selenite noun (gypsum)
- selenito noun (from selenous acid)
Kazakh
1 entries- селенит noun (from selenous acid)
Latin
1 entries- speculāris lapis noun (gypsum)
Portuguese
2 entries- selenita noun (gypsum)
- selenite noun (gypsum)
Spanish
2 entries- selenita noun (gypsum)
- selenito noun (from selenous acid)
Sample sentences
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Glass windows replaced the old tiny windows of selenite (crystallized gypsum), and stovepipe replaced adobe chimneys.
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My first impression was of some clumsy quadruped with lowered head. Then I perceived it was the slender pinched body and short and extremely attenuated bandy legs of a Selenite, with his head depressed between his shoulders.
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a Selenite colony
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