Etymology

psammite

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Today it means: Any sandstone, but most often a metamorphosed rock unit with a dominantly sandstone protolith Full definition →

Ancient Greek ψάμμος
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromψάμμος
  2. English todaypsammite

Ancient Greek ψάμμος (psámmos) + -ite

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekψάμμος all →

psammo-psammophyte

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