A mineral variety of leucite that contains starch-like compounds or has a starch-resembling composition.
From amylo- (starch) + leucite (a potassium aluminum silicate mineral); a mineralogical term combining Greek roots describing the mineral's appearance and composition.
Amyloleucite is a super rare mineral term that shows how early scientists named things based on visual similarity—they saw a mineral that looked starch-like under magnification and gave it a name combining two languages to describe what they observed.
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