anomite

an·o·mite

[an-uh-mahyt]
noun Mineralogy.
a variety of mica, similar to biotite but differing in optical orientation.

Origin:
< Greek ánom(os) lawless (a- a-6 + nóm(os) law + -os adj. suffix) + -ite1

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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