Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A soft mica having a green hue and a high iron content.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A green earthy silicate of iron, magnesium, and potassium, first described from cavities in amygdaloid near Verona: hence called
green earth of Verona .
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- noun mineralogy A blueish-green form of
mica .
Etymologies
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From French celadon ("sea-green") + -ite
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Examples
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An opaque calcite of a grass-green colour, occurring as large cleavage masses in central India and known as hislopite, owes its colour to enclosed "green-earth" (glauconite and celadonite).
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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I could have called out and initiated a deep argument about crushed malachite (which is so expensive) as against green earth celadonite (which fades), but who wants to start libelling "Appian green 'with a painter who is known to thump people?
A Body In The Bath House Davis, Lindsey 2001
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