Definition of -ite
1 a
: native : resident
- Brooklynite
b
: descendant
- Ephraimite
c
: adherent : follower
- Jacobite
- Puseyite
2 a (1)
: product
- metabolite
(2)
: commercially manufactured product
- ebonite
b
: -itol
- mannite
3
[New Latin -ites, from Latin]
: fossil - ammonite
4
: mineral
- erythrite
- anorthosite
5
[French, from Latin -ita, -ites]
: segment or constituent part of a body or of a bodily part - somite
- dendrite
