Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The mineral vesuvianite.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) Same as
vesuvianite .
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- noun geology
vesuvianite
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
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Examples
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Nepheline, leucite, idocrase, and meionite have not yet been seen at the peak of
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Nepheline, leucite, idocrase, and meionite have not yet been seen at the peak of Teneriffe; for a reddish-grey lava, which we found on the slope of Monte Verde, and which contains small microscopic crystals, appears to me to be a close mixture of basalt and analcime.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Tr. [footnote] ** Of minerals purposely produced, we may mention idocrase and garnet (Mitscherlich, in Poggend.,
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
rumali commented on the word idocrase
In my first Scrabble Nationals (New Orleans, 2005?), I misspelled this word on my first game, which led to a challenge and surely contributed to that loss. Fast forward a couple of years and I hang a C on a triple-lane, and, with a blank, pull out the necessary letters for IDOCRASE as a triple-triple.
January 15, 2009