kyanite

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kyanite - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Kyanite \Ky"a*nite\, n.
     See Cyanite.
     [1913 Webster]

  Cyanite \Cy"a*nite\ (-n?t), n. [See Cyanic.] (Min.)
     A mineral occuring in thin-bladed crystals and crystalline
     aggregates, of a sky-blue color. It is a silicate of
     aluminium. [Written also kyanite.]
     [1913 Webster] cyanobacterium

kyanite - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  kyanite
      n 1: a grey or greenish-blue mineral consisting of aluminum
           silicate in crystalline form; occurs in metaphoric rock,
           used as a refractory [syn: kyanite, cyanite]