bauxite

Derived from the name of Les Baux in France, plus +‎ -ite. The /ks/ in the English pronunciation is from a spelling pronunciation.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔːksaɪt/

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bauxite (countable and uncountable, plural bauxites)

1. The principal ore of aluminium; a clay-like mineral, being a mixture of hydrated oxides and hydroxides.
   • 2021, Leone Ross, This One Sky Day, Faber & Faber Limited, page 152:

     A thin red stream poured down one of the rises, snaking its way around trees; a river turned red with bauxite?

From Les Baux in France.

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bauxite f (uncountable)

1. bauxite

• “bauxite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

bauxite f (plural bauxiti)

1. (mineralogy) bauxite

• bauxitico

• Hyphenation: bau‧xi‧te

bauxite f (countable and uncountable, plural bauxites)

1. European Portuguese standard form of bauxita