What is "peridots"

Usage examples of "peridots".

The handful of wealthier islanders presented gifts of pearl necklaces, bracelets, and girdles studded with garnets, peridots, and zeolite crystals and containers covered in shagreen.

At his throat the eyes of the slender serpent glared, twin peridots, coldly insulted by humanity.

It is built of marble and copper tubing, of sculptured alabaster and peridots the size of my shell.

Set among the marble sculptures that comprised the fountain were hundreds of the brilliant green garnets called peridots, which gave the square its name.