Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A deep red garnet, Mg3Al2Si3O12, used as a gem.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Fire-garnet, or Bohemian garnet, a dark-red variety of garnet, sometimes used as a gem, found embedded in serpentine at Budweis in Bohemia and elsewhere.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A variety of garnet, of a poppy or blood-red color, frequently with a tinge of orange. It is used as a gem. See the Note under
garnet .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A variety of garnet, of a poppy or blood-red color, frequently with a tinge of orange. It is used as a gem. See the Note under
garnet .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a deep red garnet used as a gemstone
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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These had a composition between almandite and pyrope, that is, they had both magnesium and iron with aluminum and silica.
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public Frank Bertram Wade
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"pyrope," the deeper and richer tints being designated "carbuncle," from the Latin _carbunculus_, a little coal, because when this beautiful variety of the "noble" garnet is held up between the eyes and the sun, it is no longer a deep, blood-red, but has exactly the appearance of a small piece of live or glowing coal, the scarlet portion of its colour-mixture being particularly evident.
The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones John Mastin
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These were inlaid with cut spessartine and pyrope.
Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999
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These were inlaid with cut spessartine and pyrope.
Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999
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The so-called "Cape rubies" of the diamond mines of South Africa are pyrope garnets and some large and fine ones are found.
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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The pyrope garnets are, as the name literally implies, of fire red color, as a rule, but they also may be purplish in color.
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public Frank Bertram Wade
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Similarly the pyrope garnet of the diamond mines of South Africa is incorrectly called "Cape ruby."
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public Frank Bertram Wade
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The somewhat less dense, and less hard blood red garnets are properly called "_pyrope garnets_"
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public Frank Bertram Wade
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Almandite garnet, the "almandine" of the jeweler is less abundant than pyrope, when of gem quality.
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public Frank Bertram Wade
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