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Definition of -ite
(Entry 1 of 2)
1a : native : resident
Brooklynite
b : descendant
Ephraimite
c : adherent : follower
Jacobite Puseyite
2a(1) : product
metabolite
(2) : commercially manufactured product
ebonite
b : -itol mannite
3
[New Latin -ites, from Latin] : fossil
ammonite
4 : mineral
erythrite : rock
anorthosite
5
[French, from Latin -ita, -ites] : segment or constituent part of a body or of a bodily part
somite dendrite
-ite
noun suffix (2)Definition of -ite (Entry 2 of 2)
: salt or ester of an acid with a name ending in -ous nitrite
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