Usually means: Minerals containing sulfur and metal.
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  1. pyrites: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pyrites: Merriam-Webster
  3. pyrites: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pyrites: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pyrites: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pyrites: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pyrites, pyrites: Wordnik
  8. pyrites: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pyrites: Wiktionary
  10. pyrites: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pyrites: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pyrites: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pyrites, pyrites: Dictionary.com
  14. Pyrites: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Pyrites: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. pyrites: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. pyrites: Rhymezone
  18. Pyrites: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. pyrites: FreeDictionary.org
  20. pyrites: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. pyrites: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pyrites: Encyclopedia

(Note: See pyritic as well.)

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noun:  any of various metallic-looking sulfides (of which pyrite is the commonest)


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