Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A transparent to translucent glassy mineral, essentially aluminum beryllium silicate, Be3Al2Si6O18, occurring in hexagonal prisms and constituting the chief source of beryllium. Transparent varieties in white, green, blue, yellow, or pink are valued as gems.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A colorless, bluish, pinkish, yellow, or more commonly green mineral, occurring in hexagonal prisms. The precious emerald is a variety which owes its beauty of color to the presence of a small amount of chromium. See
emerald . Aquamarine is a pale-green transparent variety, also used as a gem, though not highly prized. Beryl is a silicate of aluminium and beryllium (glucinum). The best beryls are found in Brazil and Ceylon, and in Transbaikalia and elsewhere in Siberia. Beryls occur also in many parts of the United States, especially in the New England States and North Carolina; the latter State has afforded some good emeralds.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable, mineralogy A mineral of pegmatite deposits, often used as a gemstone.
- n. countable An example of the mineral beryl.
- n. uncountable A dull blue colour.
- adj. Of a dull blue colour.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Min.) A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminum and beryllium. The aquamarine is a transparent, sea-green variety used as a gem. The emerald is another variety highly prized in jewelry, and distinguished by its deep color, which is probably due to the presence of a little oxide of chromium.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the chief source of beryllium; colored transparent varieties are valued as gems
Etymologies
- Ultimately from Ancient Greek βήρυλλος (berullos, "beryl"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French, from Latin bēryllus, from Greek bērullos, from bērullion, from Prakrit veruliya, from Pali veḷuriya; perhaps akin to Tamil veḷiru or viḷar, to whiten, become pale. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Yellow beryl may be called _golden beryl_, or it may be called”
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
“All attempts to melt real emerald or beryl have yielded only a _beryl glass_, softer and lighter than true emerald, and not _crystalline_, but rather glassy in structure.”
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
“By tarshish the modern yellow topaz is probably intended, while in (Revelation 21: 20) a different stone is perhaps referred to, probably the mineral now called beryl, which is identical with the emerald except in color, being a light green or bluish-green.”
“The hands bent in are compared to beautiful rings, in which beryl is set, as the nails are in the fingers.”
“Their appearance and their work are said to be like the colour of a beryl (v. 16), the colour of Tarshish (so the word is), that is, of the sea; the beryl is of that colour, sea-green; blue Neptune we call it.”
“We login via ssh to beryl, which is the Unix system on which we work when posting, the same one that you FTPed the file to, unzip the file and glance at the top of it.”
“The beryl is a compound of silicates of beryllia and alumina, with the formula 3BeOSiO_ {2} + Al_ {2} O_ {3} ,3SiO_ {2}, or”
“The beryl is a stone composed of silica, alumina, and glucina.”
“Once upon a time, the jewel called beryl was thought unrivaled as a mirror into which a magician might look to see reflected events taking place at a distance, or reflections of the future.”
“We may conclude this review by noticing, among stones of less consequence produced within the Empire, jet, which was so called from being found at the mouth of the river Gagis in Lycia, garnets, which are common in Armenia, and beryl, which is a product of the same country.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘beryl’.
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Minerals and Mineralogy
List of minerals, elements, group names and geochemistry terms encountered in the science of mineralogy. I've chosen to avoid capital letters in most examples, though a great many mineral names hon...
galkhaite, xanthoconite, pyrostilpnite, polybasite, pyrargyrite, djurleite, digenite, covellite, chalcocite, cerargirite, acanthite, aeschynite and 2608 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Places In Utah
tooele, rainbow bridge, duchene, bountiful, american fork, deseret, this is the place, temple square, orem, provo, west jordan, great salt lake and 246 more...
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Open List: Greens
A lits of greens: cooked leafy vegetables; pigments, paint names, compound words, etc; words and phrases that pertain to or contain "green". Please add your favorites!
See this list f...greenery, collard greens, mustard greens, turnip greens, green shoots, viridian green, malachite green, sap green, green grocer, radish greens, beet greens, spring green and 282 more...
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Scrabble Names
Given names that were acceptable for play the last time I checked the OWL.
kris, ray, barb, morris, kat, mark, maria, erica, marge, mason, hunter, hazel and 168 more...
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not your normal colors
Instead of "blue," "red," or "green," we say "azure," "scarlet," and "emerald."
azure, garnet, celadon, bone, vermilion, indigo, maize, puce, tangerine, beryl, cerulean
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• This is the story of the Hurriclone
Also known as Yes, we hurricane.
A collective effort to list all first names that are also hurricane/cyclone/tropical storm names.
The only rules are
1) double-check...katrina, camille, rita, klaus, beulah, isabel, betsy, carol, hazel, connie, diane, ione and 85 more...
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XX names
girls names
maxine, india, ivy, mabel, petal, beryl, dorothy, elena, nura, salma, teresa, viola and 3 more...
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color, light & sight
albedo, chromatography, chromatic, tone, penumbra, superluminal, diaphanous, iridescent, amethyst, opalescent, celadon, lapis and 35 more...
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Multihued
just names of colors
chartreuse, beryl, aquamarine, mulberry, mauve, amaranthine, fuschia, salmon, tangerine, titian, xanthous, azure and 8 more...
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Words I like
A list contrived for the sole purpose of storing words I like to include in my writing; words that inspire or carry power for me.
contrite, meadow, sward, ossary, calumny, moribund, necropolis, chthonic, murmur, erstwhile, chime, beryl and 63 more...
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If-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-...
Words that have been used as baby names, including virtue names, nature names, place names, etc.
The title is an actual name given to a Puritan boy in the 17th century.faith, hope, grace, charity, chastity, prudence, patience, temperance, river, phoenix, stone, violet and 455 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, B
bloviate, bejesus, brouhaha, behoove, bodacious, bamboozle, banshee, bub, bolus, blob, bubbly, bleb and 414 more...
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color me bad
lapis, azure, beryl, cerulean, amaranthine, iris, helio, eucalyptus, evergreen, popinjay
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 1991 more...
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Chromonyms
These chromonyms are defined as colors in at least one dictionary (mostly MW3). (Actually there's one fake, for reasons I'll explain someday.) They are all one-word nouns such as "kelly", which can...
absinthe, acacia, acorn, alabaster, alesan, almond, aloma, amaranth, amber, amethyst, anemone, anil and 821 more...
Tweets
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Long he watched the wonders, ringed with lovely perils,
Watched the apples gleam
In the sleepy thunders on the beryls,
Then he breathed his dream:
“Bloody lands and flaming seas and cloudy slaughter,
Hateful fogs unfurled,
Steely horror, shaming sky and water,
These have wreathed the world.
- Ridgely Torrence, 'The Apples'. Sep 23, 2009