chalybeate

chalybeate
/keuh lib"ee it, -ayt'/, adj.
1. containing or impregnated with salts of iron, as a mineral spring or medicine.
n.
2. a chalybeate water, medicine, or the like.
[1625-35; < NL chalybeatus, L chalybe(ïus) of steel ( < Gk chalybeís, equiv. to chalybe-, var. s. of chályps iron + -is adj. suffix) + -atus -ATE1; see CHALYBITE]

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