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Answer for the clue "Quartz type ", 6 letters:
jasper

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Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 2167 Housing Units (2000): 1030 Land area (2000): 3.298474 sq. miles (8.543008 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 3.298474 sq. miles (8.543008 sq. km) FIPS code: 41932 Located within: Georgia ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context obsolete English) Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian. 2 (context mineralogy English) An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface. ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an opaque form of quartz; red or yellow or brown or dark green in color; used for ornamentation or as a gemstone

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
masc. proper name, English form of Caspar or of Gaspar , the traditional name of one of the Three Kings. Said by Klein to be of Persian origin and meaning literally "treasure-holder." Used from 1896 for "a rustic simpleton."

Usage examples of jasper.

Jasper, she ignited her thrusters and her stomach settled as acceleration gripped her.

Turquoise were the most numerous, but other stones included rose quartz, red jasper, leopard jasper, amethyst, lapis lazuli, opal, bloodstone, tiger-eye, azurite, malachite, and more beyond reckoning.

Several skiffs, bateaux, and canoes were hauled up on the shore, and in the cove itself lay the little craft from which Jasper obtained his claim to be considered a sailor.

Jasper looked up at Hannah and gave her a small smile, his tiny obsidian eyes expressing a much becalmed disposition.

I went for a walk with Bettina and Jasper shortly after my talk with Jasper, leaving Tish with the evening paper and Aggie inhaling a cubeb cigarette, her hay fever having threatened a return.

His right hand moved, as if he were plucking a string, and Fiddlesticks, Jasper, and Scorn appeared on the green marble in front of Morwen.

Jasper took Ged to sit with a heavyset fellow called Vetch, who said nothing much but shovelled in his food with a will.

He had the accent of the East Reach, and was very dark of skin, not red-brown like Ged and Jasper and most folk of the Archipelago, but black-brown.

Clarke and the rest of the team at Kent Clarke Films all said that both Jasper and the tablet were still in the meeting room when they packed up their gear and left, Daniel to his home in Hanga Roa, Kent and Brittany to their room, and Mike to his end of the bar.

Celts or knives made of jasper and yellowish jaspery slate, which range from 2 to 5 inches in length, and are less than 1 inch in width and half an inch in thickness.

France, plus two broken pieces of an Indian spearpoint knapped from a bright-red stone that he was sure was jasper.

France, plus two broken pieces of an Indian spear point knapped from a bright-red stone that he was sure was jasper.

Three hundred yards away, however, Loge rose again and shook a furious fist at the Jasper B.

Watching their pantomime closely, Cleggett gathered that Loge was endeavoring to enforce some point of view with regard to the Jasper B.

Cleggett, straining to meet Loge, who hung sword to sword with Wilton Barnstable, saw Giuseppe Jones, deserted by his nurses, tumbling feebly over the bow of the Jasper B.