clinohedrite

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromκλῑ́νω“to incline”
2. English todayclinohedrite

From Ancient Greek κλῑ́νω (klī́nō, “to incline”) + ἕδρᾱ (hédrā, “face”) + -ite, for the inclined facial character of the crystal morphology.

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