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Deep red garnet
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almandine
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n. (context mineral English) A type of garnet having a deep red color, inclining to purple, with the chemical formula iron 3 aluminum 2 (siliconoxygen 4 ) 3 .
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Almandine , also known incorrectly as almandite , is a species of mineral belonging to the garnet group. The name is a corruption of alabandicus, which is the name applied by Pliny the Elder to a stone found or worked at Alabanda , a town in Caria in Asia ...
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n. a purple variety of the ruby spinel a deep red garnet consisting of iron aluminum silicate [syn: almandite ]
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Almandine \Al"man*dine\, n. [LL. almandina, alamandina, for L. alabandina a precious stone, named after Alabanda, a town in Caria, where it was first and chiefly found: cf. F. almandine.] (Min.) The common red variety of garnet. [1913 Webster] ||
Usage examples of almandine.
She wore four rings, green peridot and red almandine on her left hand, pale blue topaz and red-green alexandrite on her right.
The jeweler identified them with taps, as he reeled off the list: citrine, peridot, chrysoberyl, rubellite, almandine, jacinth.
He had spent most of the day sitting morosely in a whirlpool tub of Homeric proportions, got out in late afternoon for a meal of filet of sole almandine, and finally dressed himself in the style of a Tombstone gambler, complete with black sombrero and silver spurs.
Since he had shared living quarters with the Siamese he had become highly sensitive about cruelty to animals, Even the thought of hooking a fish disturbed him, although he enjoyed trout almandine at the Old Stone Mill.