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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a mineral consisting of iron and manganese tungstate in crystalline form; the principal ore of tungsten; found in quartz veins associated with granitic rocks;
[syn: wolframite, iron manganese tungsten]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Wolframite \Wol"fram*ite\, n. [G., wolframit, wolfram; wolf wolf + rahm cream, soot; cf. G. wolfsruss wolfram, lit., wolf's soot.] (Min.) Tungstate of iron and manganese, generally of a brownish or grayish black color, submetallic luster, and high specific gravity. It occurs in cleavable masses, and also crystallized. Called also wolfram. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

wolframite n 1: a mineral consisting of iron and manganese tungstate in crystalline form; the principal ore of tungsten; found in quartz veins associated with granitic rocks [syn: wolframite, iron manganese tungsten]