gedrite Min.
(ˈdʒɛdraɪt)
[a. F. gédrite f. Gèdre (see below): see -ite. Named by Dufrénoy Ann. des Mines Ser. iii. X. 582 (1836).]
An aluminous variety of anthophyllite, discovered by D'Archiac near Gèdre in the French Pyrenees.
| 1844 in Dana Min. (ed. 2) 524. |