Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Wollastonite

Wollastonite , noun

[After Dr. W. H. Wollaston, an English chemist, who died in 1828.]

(Mineralogy) A silicate of lime of a white to gray, red, or yellow color, occurring generally in cleavable masses, rarely in tabular crystals; tabular spar.