allochroite Min.
(æˈlɒkrəʊaɪt)
[mod. f. Gr. ἀλλόχρο-ος (see prec.) + -ite, min. form.]
An iron-garnet, made by Dana a sub-variety of Andradite, found in Norway and elsewhere.
| 1837–80 Dana Min. 269 Named Andradite by the author after the Portuguese mineralogist, d'Andrada, who described and named [1800] the first of the included sub-varieties Allochroite..The original allochroite was a manganesian iron-garnet of brown or reddish-brown color, and of fine-grained massive structure. |