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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Gr.

μαλακόσ

soft +

-lite

(Min.)

A variety of pyroxene.

Noun.

[Gr. mallows, from its color.]

Another name for diopside, a variety of pyroxene.

malacolite ‎(countable and uncountable, plural malacolites)