pinite

Meaning

Noun

• Any fossil wood which exhibits traces of having belonged to the pine family.
• A sweet white crystalline substance extracted from the gum of a species of pine (Pinus lambertiana (species), sugar pine), isomeric with quercite.
• A compact granular cryptocrystalline mineral of a dull grayish or greenish white color. It is a hydrous alkaline silicate, and is derived from the alteration of other minerals, such as iolite.

Origin

• pine + -ite
• Pini + -ite, after a mine in Saxony.