Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A transparent blue-green variety of beryl, used as a gemstone.
- noun A pale blue to light greenish blue.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A transparent variety of beryl of a bluish or seagreen tint, used as a gem.
- noun A bluish-green color resembling that of the finest beryl.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A transparent, pale green variety of beryl, used as a gem. See
beryl .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The bluish-green
colour of the sea. - noun A bluish-green
variety ofberyl . - adjective Of a bluish-green colour.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a transparent variety of beryl that is blue green in color
- noun a shade of blue tinged with green
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Her hands were wide and extremely strong looking; one thumbnail was rimmed in aquamarine blue, and the other wrist had a faint smudge of yellow.
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She had hair of wavy gold, a white brow, eyes of a colour never seen but in the precious stone called aquamarine, cheeks of rose, a nose straight and finely cut.
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Its seat was in her eyes, which many thought not at all beautiful, for they were like those gems called aquamarine, of a puzzling tint varying from blue to green, lustrous and lapping the beholder with their gentle lambency, except when passion moved her, when I have seen them glow with a menacing light as though they might shoot forth green flames.
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Pegmatite is important to collectors because it often contains crystals such as aquamarine, topaz and tourmaline, Howe said.
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Extraordinary multiple all-year waterfalls cascading down an otherwise undistinguished mountainside but beautiful with several deep crystal aquamarine pools for swimming or simple sightseeing.
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A Fabergé brooch with a huge Siberian aquamarine sitting regally on top of a glittering rim of interwoven diamonds symbolizing eternity and union is breathtaking enough, but when Mr. Munn starts to tell the story of the piece it takes on an otherworldly quality.
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From a distance, they tossed the coconuts and other offerings into the aquamarine waters toward the white-sand beaches, hoping to coax the Sentinelese out of the thick forest.
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Beautiful deserted white beaches and marshlands and aquamarine if somewhat turbid seas.
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Someone somewhere (in an air conditioned office) is probably looking at colour swatches right now, deciding on a new ‘less confrontational’ colour scheme for riot gear (black is so last G8) pale aquamarine I suspect, very calming. on July 8, 2009 at 11: 33 am Stocking
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Beautiful deserted white beaches and marshlands and aquamarine if somewhat turbid seas.
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