li·mo·nite 
(līmə-nīt′)
(līmə-nīt′)n.
Any of a group of widely occurring yellowish-brown to black iron oxide minerals, essentially FeO(OH)·nH2O, used as a minor ore of iron.
[Originally, bog iron ore, from German Limonit (coined on the model of German Wiesenerz : Wiesen, meadow + Erz, ore) : Greek leimōn, meadow, moist grassy place (of unknown origin) + German -it, -ite (from Latin -ītēs; see -ITE1).]
li′mo·nitic (-nĭtĭk) adj.
- Indo-European root: wesr̥
- Indo-European root: wet-
- Indo-European root: wet-
- Indo-European root: wi-
- Indo-European root: wl̥kwo-
- Indo-European root: wl̥p-ē-
- Indo-European root: wrād-
- Indo-European root: wē-
- Indo-European root: wē-r-
- Indo-European root: wērə-o-
- Indo-European root: wīkm̥tī-
- Indo-European root: wī-ro-
- Indo-European root: wō̆s
- Indo-European root: yeg-
- Indo-European root: yek-
- Indo-European root: yes-
- Indo-European root: yeu-
- Indo-European root: yeug-
- Indo-European root: yewes-
- Indo-European root: yewo-
- Indo-European root: yu-
- Indo-European root: yē-
- Indo-European root: yēr-
- Indo-European root: yē̆kwr̥
- Indo-European root: āter-