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A milky or grayish translucent to transparent quartz
Answer for the clue "A milky or grayish translucent to transparent quartz ", 9 letters:
calcedony
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a milky or grayish translucent to transparent quartz [syn: chalcedony ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chalcedony \Chal*ced"o*ny\ (k[a^]l*s[e^]d"[-o]*n[y^] or k[a^]l"s[-e]*d[-o]*n[y^]; 277), n.; pl. Chalcedonies (-n[i^]z). [ L. chalcedonius, fr. Gr. CHalkhdw`n Chalcedon, a town in Asia Minor, opposite to Byzantium: cf. calc['e]doine, OE. calcidoine, ...
Usage examples of calcedony.
Within there were foure seates whiche went rounde about, and one vnder an other, and close knitte togither, wroght with Iasper and Calcedony stone, in all kinde of colours.