Min. Also bauxite. [f. (1847), Beaux or Baux, near Arles in France, where found + -ITE.] A hydrous oxide of alumina and iron, used in the manufacture of aluminium.
1868. Dana, Min., 175. The purest beauxite … is called aluminum ore.
1873. in Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc., XIII. 373. The presence of grains of corundum in the beauxite.
