See Also: Witherite(medicine)
witherite(dictionary)

witherite (iou)



witherite noun. L18.
[from William Withering (1741-99), English physician and scientist who first described it: see -ITE1.]
Mineralogy. A scarce orthorhombic mineral of the aragonite group, native barium carbonate, occurring as white, grey, or yellowish crystals, masses, etc., especially in veins of galena.