Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pink to rose-red mineral, essentially a glassy crystalline manganese silicate, MnSiO3, used as an ornamental stone.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Native manganese silicate, sometimes containing zinc or calcium: a mineral occurring massive, rarely in distinct crystals, of a fine rose-red or pink color. It is sometimes used as an ornamental stone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) Manganese spar, or silicate of manganese, a mineral occuring crystallised and in rose-red masses. It is often used as an ornamental stone.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy a
manganese inosilicate mineral with some substitution byiron andmagnesium , of composition (Mn 2+,Fe ,Mg ,Ca )Si O 3
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a pink or red mineral consisting of crystalline manganese silicate; used as an ornamental stone
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I bought rhodonite stones at a rock shop and art supplies and some candles.
2001-12-15 6:28 p.m. nueces 2001
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Creation -- a tableland between great mountains, full of masses of rhodonite contorted into grotesque shapes of stone images; a place where our lightest whispers came shouting back out of the profound stillness from the huge castellated black rocks bristling on the edge of a precipice which slit the valley from end to end.
The Hand in the Dark 1907
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Estimates range from $7,000 for a green bowenite arc trimmed in garnets to $90,000 for a pink rhodonite horse head with diamond eyes.
NYT > Home Page By EVE M. KAHN 2010
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Estimates range from $7,000 for a green bowenite arc trimmed in garnets to $90,000 for a pink rhodonite horse head with diamond eyes.
NYT > Home Page By EVE M. KAHN 2010
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There are some regularly used gemstones found in Navajo and other Southwest Indian jewelry including turquoise, hematite, jasper, malachite, aventurine, amethyst and rhodonite.
RO.RSS 2009
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Massachusetts, true to its deeply intellectual heritage, picked this mineral, rhodonite, as its state gem.
About.com Geology 2009
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Billed as a Russian grey Kalgan jasper egg cup with rhodonite egg, it was stamped with the Russian imperial coat of arms, and sold for about ten times its estimate of £1,000 to $1,500.
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AmySegreti Just another day in Boulder: attuning to my rhodonite necklace, wondering what form of technology Mercury in retrograde will affect next ...
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009
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