/al"meuhn deen', -duyn', -din/ , n.
a mineral, red iron aluminum garnet.
[ 1670-80; alamandina, alabandina a precious stone, prob. a kind of garnet, equiv. to Alaband ( a ) a town in Asia Minor + -ina, fem. of -inus -INE 1 ; cf. ME alabaundaryne, alemaundine; cf. ALABANDITE ]