hematite

hematite has 2 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• n.. An important ore of iron, the sesquioxide, so called because of the red color of the powder. It occurs in splendent rhombohedral crystals, and in massive and earthy forms; -- the last called red ocher. Called also specular iron, oligist iron, rhombohedral iron ore, and bloodstone. See Brown hematite, under Brown.
• n.. the principal form of iron ore; consists of ferric oxide in crystalline form; occurs in a red earthy form