[mass noun]a pink powder consisting of zinc carbonate and ferric oxide, used to make a soothing lotion or ointment 炉甘石,异极石 ■(dated)smithsonite or a similar zinc ore (旧)菱锌矿;锌矿石
语源
late Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin calamina, alteration of Latin cadmia 'calamine', from Greek kadmeia (gē) 'Cadmean (earth'), from Kadmos 'Cadmus' (see Cadmus)