rhodochrosite
noun
rhodochrosite is a noun meaning “A crystalline mineral composed mainly of manganese carbonate MnCO₃” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-H-O-D-O-C-H-R-O-S-I-T-E, and it appears about once in every 38 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of rhodochrosite is rhodochrosites.
What does rhodochrosite mean?
noun
- 1
A crystalline mineral composed mainly of manganese carbonate MnCO₃.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of rhodochrosite
- rhodochrosites plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is rhodochrosite?
Rhodochrosite appears about once in every 38 million words in written English, the 189,524th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Rhodochrosite in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense crystalline mineral composed mainly of manganese carbonate:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | rhodochrosite |
| German | Rhodochrosit |
| Portuguese | rodocrosita |
| Spanish | rodocrosita |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does rhodochrosite come from?
From Ancient Greek ῥοδόχρως (rhodókhrōs, “having rosy colour”), from ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”) + χρώς (khrṓs, “colour”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).