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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A light green or light grayish-green variety of translucent chalcedony.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A cryptocrystalline variety of quartz, of a leek-green color. See quartz.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Min.) A variety of cryptocrystalline of a leek-green color.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun mineralogy A variety of cryptocrystalline of a leek-green colour.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, from Latin prasius, from Greek prasios, leek-green; see praseodymium.]

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From Latin prasius, from Ancient Greek πράσιος (prasios, "of a leek-green"), from Ancient Greek πράσον (prason, "leek").

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