Min. Also -yte. [f. Gr. εὐλυσ-ία easy solubility (f. εὔλυτος see next) + -ITE.] ‘A granular mixture of augite, garnet, and nearly 50 per cent. of a mineral allied to olivine’ (Watts, Dict. Chem.).
1868. Dana, Min., 259. It [Iron-Manganese Chrysolite] occurs in a gneissoid rock called Eulysyte.
1879. Rutley, Study Rocks, xiii. 263. Eulysite occurs in a very thick bed in the gneiss of Tunaberg in Sweden.
