tourmaline
Meaning of tourmaline
noun
a typically black or blackish mineral that occurs as prismatic crystals in granitic and other rocks. It consists of a boron aluminosilicate and has pyroelectric and piezoelectric properties.
mid 18th century: from French, based on Sinhalese tōramalli ‘carnelian’.
Information about tourmaline
- It is a name.
- The plural form of tourmaline is: tourmalines.
- Languages in which tourmaline is used:
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Hyphenation of tourmaline
tour-ma-line
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- tourmaline is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Words that rhyme with tourmaline
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