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A green variety of chalcedony valued as a gemstone
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chrysoprase
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a green variety of chalcedony valued as a gemstone
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context mineral English) A variety of light-green translucent quartz.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chrysoprase \Chrys"o*prase\, n. [OE. crisopace, OF. crisoprace, F. chrysoprase, L. chrysoprasus, fr. Gr. ?; chryso`s gold + ? leek.] (Min.) An apple-green variety of chalcedony, colored by nickel. It has a dull flinty luster, and is sometimes used in jewelry. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Chrysoprase , chrysophrase or chrysoprasus is a gemstone variety of chalcedony (a cryptocrystalline form of silica ) that contains small quantities of nickel . Its color is normally apple-green, but varies to deep green. The darker varieties of chrysoprase ...
Usage examples of chrysoprase.
The foundations of the walls are of jasper, sapphire, chalcedony, emerald, sardonix, sard, chrysolite, beryl, topaz, chrysoprase, hyacinth, and amethyst.
The marble, worn and mellowed by the subtle hand of time, took on an unspeakable rosy hue, suggestive in some remote way of the honey colored columns of the Parthenon, but more mystic, more complex, a color not born of the sun's inveterate kiss, but made up of cryptal twilight, and the flame of candles upon martyrs' tombs, and gleams of sunset through symbolic panes of chrysoprase and ruby.
He strode across the chrysoprase floor to the wall and swung down a section of the wall, carved in the semblance of a giant eagless of this planet.