What is "esmeralda"

Emerald \Em"er*ald\, a. Of a rich green color, like that of the emerald. ``Emerald meadows.''
--Byron.

Emerald fish (Zo["o]l.), a fish of the Gulf of Mexico ( Gobionellus oceanicus), remarkable for the brilliant green and blue color of the base of the tongue; -- whence the name; -- called also esmeralda.

Emerald green, a very durable pigment, of a vivid light green color, made from the arseniate of copper; green bice; Scheele's green; -- also used adjectively; as, emerald green crystals.

Emerald Isle, a name given to Ireland on account of the brightness of its verdure.

Emerald spodumene, or Lithia emerald. (Min.) See Hiddenite.

Emerald nickel. (Min.) See Zaratite.

Esmeralda may refer to:

Esméralda , born Agnès, is a fictional character in Victor Hugo's 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (or Notre Dame de Paris). She is a French Roma girl (near the end of the book, it is revealed that her biological mother was a French woman). She constantly attracts men with her seductive dances, and is rarely seen without her clever goat Djali. She is around 16 years old and has a kind and generous heart.

Esmeralda is a Mexican telenovela produced by Salvador Mejía for Televisa in 1997. It is a remake of a famous 1970 Venezuelan telenovela of that same name Esmeralda, original story Delia Fallo.

On May 5, 1997, Canal de las Estrellas started broadcasting Esmeralda weekdays at 8:00pm, replacing Mujer, casos de la vida real. The last episode was broadcast on November 28, 1997 with Desencuentro replacing it the following day.

Leticia Calderón and Fernando Colunga starred as protagonists, while Laura Zapata, Ana Patricia Rojo and Salvador Pineda starred as antagonists. Nora Salinas, Alejandro Ruiz and the leading actor Enrique Lizalde starred as stellar performances.

In 1998 it was named "The Best Telenovela of the Year" by Premios TVyNovelas.

Esmeralda is a 1905 French short silent film based on the novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame written by Victor Hugo. It was directed by Alice Guy-Blaché and Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset.

There are two characters in the film, Esmeralda (Denise Becker) and Quasimodo (Henry Vorins). The film is the oldest film adaptation of the novel.

Esmeralda is a 1922 British silent film and an adaptation of a novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo. It was directed by Edwin J. Collins and starred Sybil Thorndike and Booth Conway.

Esmeralda is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains three recognized species, native to southern China, the Himalayas, and northern Southeast Asia.

• Esmeralda bella Rchb.f. - Tibet, Yunnan, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Assam, Bhutan
• Esmeralda cathcartii (Lindl.) Rchb.f. - Nepal, Assam, Bhutan, Sikkim
• Esmeralda clarkei Rchb.f. - Yunnan, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Assam, Bhutan, Hainan, Vietnam

Esmeralda is a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae, containing the following species:

• Esmeralda coerulea (Schoenherr, 1817)
• Esmeralda costulata Bates, 1891
• Esmeralda laetifica Bates, 1869
• Esmeralda polita (Fragoso & Monné, 1988)

Esmeralda is an opera in four acts composed by Arthur Goring Thomas to an English-language libretto by Theo Marzials and Alberto Randegger based on Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. It premiered in London on 26 March 1883 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane with Georgina Burns in the title role and Barton McGuckin as her lover, Phoebus.

Esmeralda is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by SBT in 2004 and 2005.

Esmeralda was a Portuguese carrack that sank in 1503. It is the earliest ship found, to date, from Europe’s Age of Discovery.

Esmeralda ( 1915) is a silent film starring Mary Pickford, directed by James Kirkwood, and produced by Adolph Zukor and stage impresario Daniel Frohman.

As with the previous Pickford vehicles Caprice, Mistress Nell and The Dawn of a Tomorrow, Esmeralda is based on a short story and stage play Esmeralda written by Frances Hodgson Burnett and William Gillette and produced in the 1880s. The play was acted by Annie Russell and later Viola Allen both teenagers at the time, who later became well known adult theater actresses.