Min. [f. AZURE + -ITE.]
1. Blue carbonate of copper, a valuable ore, closely allied to malachite.
1868. Dana, Min., 715.
1873. Watts, Fownes’ Chem., 398. Azurite occurs in large transparent crystals of the most intense blue.
† 2. Obsolete name of LAZULITE.
1816. R. Jameson, Min., I. 341.
