Min. A variety of pyroxene consisting of a greyish- or bluish-white rock, found near Canaan, CT, U.S.
1844. W. Phillips, Min., 89. Canaanite occurs very extensively at Canaan, Ct.
1868. Dana, Min. (1880), 803. Canaanite is a whitish pyroxene rock … and constitutes ridges.
