Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A variety of garnet: same as
cinnamon-stone .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An orange, cinnamon, or pinkish
garnet .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a garnet ranging in color from yellow to brown
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Examples
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Brown garnet (hessonite or cinnamon stone), sometimes wrongly called hyacinth in the trade, is of a deep reddish-brown color.
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public Frank Bertram Wade
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Of these the principal ones are zircon, almandine garnet, and beryl (emerald and aquamarine) rated as 7-1/2 in hardness, and pyrope and hessonite garnet rated as
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public Frank Bertram Wade
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The hessonite garnets are frequently brownish red and are sometimes called "cinnamon stones."
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public Frank Bertram Wade
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These are all silicates, the almandite garnets being silicates of iron and aluminum; the pyrope garnets are silicates of magnesium and aluminum; the hessonite garnets, silicates of calcium and aluminum, and the andradite garnets, silicates of calcium and iron.
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public Frank Bertram Wade
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Pyrope garnet (Arizona ruby, cape ruby), hessonite garnet
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public Frank Bertram Wade
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Certain stones, notably the peridot (or chrysolite) and the hessonite (or cinnamon stone), have an oily luster.
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public Frank Bertram Wade
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Her LUXE designs are filled with precious and semi-precious gemstones such as apatite, iolite and hessonite delicately clustered with emerald, ruby and topaz.
PR.com Press Releases JulRe Designs 2010
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The more common variety is called grossular comes from the Greek meaning, because it's inferior jardness, zircon, hessonite on yellow crystals.
VInvesting.com 2010
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Her LUXE designs are filled with precious and semi-precious gemstones such as apatite, iolite and hessonite delicately clustered with emerald, ruby and topaz.
PR.com Press Releases JulRe Designs 2010
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What do these have in common: hessonite, tsavorite, rhodolite, demantoid?
About.com Geology 2009
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