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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
scapolite
 
SYLLABICATION:scap·o·lite
PRONUNCIATION:  skp-lt
NOUN: Any of a series of variously colored, often fluorescent mineral silicates of aluminum, calcium, and sodium. Also called wernerite.
ETYMOLOGY:Latin scpus, stalk; see scape1 + –lite (from the prismatic shape of its crystals).
 
 
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