U'RANITE, n. An ore or phosphate of uranium, called also uran-glimmer, and uran-mica. It is of a lemon yellow gold color, or yellowish brown, sometimes of an apple green or emerald color. It occurs crystallized in rectangular prisms, in imperfect octahedrons, _c. Its structure is lamellar, and it yields to the knife.
Uranite is found in primitive earths, in three states, crystallized, compact, and pulverulent.
