Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A green to brown or black calcium-iron garnet, Ca3Fe2(SiO4)3.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A variety of common garnet containing calcium and iron. See garnet.
Wiktionary
- n. A nesosilicate mineral of the garnet group with chemical formula Ca3Fe2Si3O12.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a garnet consisting of calcium iron silicate and having any color ranging from yellow and green to brown and black; used as gemstone
Etymologies
- After José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
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“The andradite garnets furnish the brilliant, nearly emerald green demantoids (so often called”
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Minerals and Mineralogy
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