Min. [mod. f. Gr. ἀλλόχρο-ος (see prec.) + -ITE, min. form.] An iron-garnet, made by Dana a sub-variety of Andradite, found in Norway and elsewhere.
1837–80. Dana, Min., 269. Named Andradite by the author after the Portuguese mineralogist, d’Andrada, who described and named [1800] the first of the included sub-varieties Allochroite … The original allochroite was a manganesian iron-garnet of brown or reddish brown color, and of fine-grained massive structure.
