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

  • noun A fibrous green amphibole mineral occurring in rocks such as eclogite.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An emerald-green mineral, thin-foliated to fibrous in structure, belonging to the amphibole or hornblende group: it is found in certain rocks, as the euphotide of the Alps.

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

  • noun (Min.) A green foliated kind of amphibole, observed in eclogite and some varietis of gabbro.

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  • noun mineralogy A green foliated kind of amphibole, observed in eclogite and some varieties of gabbro.

Etymologies

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

[French, from Latin smaragdus, emerald; see emerald.]

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Compare French smaragdite; so called from its emerald-green color. See smaragd.

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