Definition of Minettes

1. minette [n] - See also: minette

Lexicographical Neighbors of Minettes

miners' canaries
miners' canary
miners' moss
miners moss
minerva
mines
mineshaft
mineshafts
minestrone
minestrones
minesweeper
minesweepers
minesweeping
minesweepings
minette
minettes (current term)
minever
minevers
minework
mineworker
mineworkers
mineworking
ming tree
minged
mingei
mingent
mingers
minges

Literary usage of Minettes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Nature of Ore Deposits by Richard Beck (1905)
"... ore beds of Jurassic age are those of the Dogger formation. The Minette ore beds belong to this formation. Oolitic Iron Ores (minettes) of Luxemberg and ..."

2. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"In other districts where granites are abundant no rocks of this class are known. It is rare to find only one member of the group present, but minettes, ..."

3. A Summary of Progress in Petrography. in 1887-1896by William Shirley Bayley, William Herbert Hobbs by William Shirley Bayley, William Herbert Hobbs (1889)
"The minettes of the Odenwald fall into two groups, the minettes proper, ... The minettes sometimes contain augite and sometimes biotite as their principal ..."

4. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1904)
"... and minettes are both biotite bearing, the former having plagioclase feldspar in predominance over the orthoclase, while the latter has the proportions ..."

5. Geology by Alexander Henry Green (1882)
"Hornblende and Augite occur in some minettes, and Apatite, Magnetite and Iron Pyrites are common accessories. minettes have often suffered much alteration ..."

6. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1905)
"The abundance of biotite shows its relation to the minettes, hut the rock is much richer in the ferromagnesian components and lacks the feldspar of the ..."

7. Bulletin by Geological Society of America (1921)
"minettes also are more abundant in East Butte than in the other two. The sills, numbers -Hi and 48, in the Colorado shales, along the valley south from the ..."

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