† panabase Min. Obs.
(ˈpænəbeɪs)
[irreg. mod. f. Gr. πᾶν all + base n.1 Named (in French) by Beudant 1832.]
A synonym of tetrahedrite.
| 1847 in Webster; and in later Dicts. 1896 A. H. Chester Dict. Names Min., Panabase,..because of the number of bases which may replace one another in its composition. |