| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | flu·or |
| PRONUNCIATION: | fl ôr , - r |
| NOUN: | See fluorite. | | ETYMOLOGY: | New Latin, mineral belonging to a group used as fluxes, from Latin, a flowing, from fluere, to flow. See bhleu- in Appendix I.
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