Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fibrous green amphibole mineral occurring in rocks such as eclogite.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An emerald-green mineral, thin-foliated to fibrous in structure, belonging to the amphibole or hornblende group: it is found in certain rocks, as the euphotide of the Alps.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A green foliated kind of amphibole, observed in eclogite and some varietis of gabbro.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A green
foliated kind ofamphibole , observed ineclogite and some varieties ofgabbro .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French, from Latin smaragdus, emerald; see emerald.]
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Compare French smaragdite; so called from its emerald-green color. See smaragd.
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