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Webster 1913 Edition

(lẽr′zō̍-līt)

Noun.

[From

Lherz

, a place in the Pyrenees +

-lite

(Min.)

An igneous rock consisting largely of chrysolite, with pyroxene and picotite (a variety of spinel containing chromium).

Noun.

[from Lherz, in the Pyrenees.]

A mineral, a variety of pyroxene. When crystallized, its crystals are brilliant, translucid, very small, and of an emerald green.

lherzolite ‎(countable and uncountable, plural lherzolites)

(mineralogy) A dark-green igneous rock consisting largely of chrysolite, with pyroxene and picotite.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 60:
  The most important variety is called lherzolite: its list of constituent minerals includes a lot of olivine but also feldspar and pyroxene, and often small quantities of two other minerals: garnet and spinel.