The story
- Japanese · borrowed from讃岐
- English todaysanukite
From Japanese 讃岐 (さぬき) (sanuki), a place in Kagawa, Japan, where the material is found, and -ite.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
sanukite
Today it means: An andesite characterized by orthopyroxene as the mafic mineral, andesine as the plagioclase, and a glassy groundmass. Full definition →
Japanese 讃岐