Min. [f. Gr. κόκκος grain, etc. + -LITE.] A granular variety of pyroxene of green or greenish color.
1801. W. Nicholson, Jrnl., Ser. I. V. 195. As to colour, coccolite is mountain, grass, and olive-green.
1879. Rutley, Study Rocks, xiv. 291. The sporadic crystals which occur in altered limestones are varieties of pyroxene, usually coccolite, [etc.].
1884. Dana, Min., 215. White coccolite is a granular variety. The original coccolite was green.
