Xenotime

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

  Xenotime \Xen"o*time\, n. [Gr. xeno`timos honoring guests or
     strangers; xe`nos guest, stranger + timh` honor: cf. G.
     xenotim.] (Min.)
     A native phosphate of yttrium occurring in yellowish-brown
     tetragonal crystals.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  xenotime
       n : a brown-to-yellow mineral that is a phosphate of yttrium in
           crystalline form