A rare mineral or a supposedly magical stone believed to come from a dragon's body in medieval folklore.
From Greek drakon (dragon) plus the mineralogical suffix -ite, used for naming minerals. This follows the scientific naming convention for gemstones.
Medieval scholars actually classified mythical dragon-stones using the same system they used for real minerals—showing how people mixed folklore with early scientific thinking!
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