Meionite

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Meionite \Mei"o*nite\, n. [Gr. mei`wn smaller. So called in a
     allusion to the low pyramids of the crystals.] (Min.)
     A member of the scapolite group, occuring in glassy crystals
     on Monte Somma, near Naples.
     [1913 Webster]