Definitions
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 aleek -green colour.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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I could say or coin a prase like Homogender or something but isn't sexuality is sexuality, gender is gender.
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I could say or coin a prase like Homogender or something but isn't sexuality is sexuality, gender is gender.
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* Spelled the first time through as "prase", in accordance with the ancient laws of the internet that dictate any comment about grammar or spelling must itself contain at least one mistake of the category it criticizes.
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If they want to serve in this world where war is everywhere I prase them for serving.
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The members were termed Wissenden, or initiated, answering to the modern prase of Illuminati.
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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Thirty years in the advertising business - "the propaganda industry" - have caused me to always try to reduce complex ideas down to a prase that makes a headline ... or something that will fit on a bumper sticker.
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Asimov had the crutch prase "to be sure" which, as much as I love his work, used to annoy the heck out of me.
Do Writers Bug You? 2005
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Asimov had the crutch prase "to be sure" which, as much as I love his work, used to annoy the heck out of me.
October 2005 2005
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Green jade looks like chrysoprase, emerald, or prase.
The Lore of Gloranthan Gems and Near-Gems by Martin R. Crim Part II 1992
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One can mistake cut and polished chrysoprase for emerald, glass, jade, or prase.
The Lore of Gloranthan Gems and Near-Gems by Martin R. Crim Part II 1992
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