Min. [f. L. belonē, Gr. βελόν-η needle + -ITE.] A mineral variety occurring in microscopic needle-shaped crystals.
1879. Rutley, Stud. Rocks, xi. 199. The augite and hornblende exist … as minute acicular bodies and spicular forms (‘belonites’).
1880. Dana, Min., 805. The belonite may be a feldspar.
