tourmalines
Meaning of tourmalines
plural 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 tourmalines
- It is a name.
- The singular form of tourmalines is: tourmaline.
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Hyphenation of tourmalines
tour-ma-lines
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- tourmalines is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Words that rhyme with tourmalines
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