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perryite

noun

Etymology

From Perry + -ite, named after American newspaperman and leading private collector of meteorites Stuart Hoffman Perry (1874–1957).

  1. derived from pirum
  2. derived from *piratum✻
  3. derived from peré
  4. inherited from perre
  5. suffixed as perryite — “Perry + ite”

Definitions

  1. A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal gray white mineral containing iron, nickel, phosphorus,…

    A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal gray white mineral containing iron, nickel, phosphorus, and silicon.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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