xenotime

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xenotime - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Xenotime \Xen"o*time\, n. [Gr. xeno`timos honoring guests or
     strangers; xe`nos guest, stranger + timh` honor: cf. G.
     xenotim.] (Min.)
     A native phosphate of yttrium occurring in yellowish-brown
     tetragonal crystals.
     [1913 Webster]

xenotime - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  xenotime
      n 1: a brown-to-yellow mineral that is a phosphate of yttrium in
           crystalline form