xylonite

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

"The youngest of the industries of Suffolk is the manufacture of xylonite."
"A simple, effective shelf label-holder is made from strips of transparent xylonite bent in a rectangular form..."
"[…] the perfumes and flavouring-substances, the explosives, the viscoses, celluloids, xylonites, bakelites, &c., […]"

From an old trademark, presumably xylo- + -ite.

xylonites (plural)

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