a. Min. [f. as prec. + -OUS: cf. F. chloriteux.] Of the nature of, or containing, chlorite.
1853. Th. Ross, trans. Humboldt’s Trav., III. xxxii. 398, note. Chloritous slate.
1876. Page, Adv. Text-bk. Geol., 339. Greenish colour which it owes to a chloritous silicate of iron.
