Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A green, brown, yellow, or blue metamorphic silicate mineral, Ca10Mg2Al4(SiO4)5(Si2O7)2(OH)4.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of a brown to green color, rarely yellow or blue.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals, and also massive, of a brown to green color, rarely sulphur yellow and blue. It is a silicate of alumina and lime with some iron magnesia, and is common at Vesuvius. Also called
idocrase .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A yellow, green or brown
mineral , a mixedcalcium ,magnesium andaluminium silicate sometimes used as agemstone .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a green or yellow or brown mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate; it occurs as crystals in limestone and is used a gemstone
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[First found in old lava on Mount Vesuvius.]
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Vesuvian + -ite
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Examples
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The lamplight made the pale green vesuvianite flash and sparkle like the cold edge of a knife.
Blind Alley Johansen, Iris 2004
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Grossular discovery and vesuvianite contact metamorphism of limestone, diopside, wollastonite and wernerite.
VInvesting.com 2010
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