Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Ampelite

Ampelite (am"pe*līt) , noun

[Latin ampelitis, Greek 'ampeli^tis, from 'a`mpelos vine.]

(Mineralogy) An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines; -- applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist.