chalcedony

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  1. noun A translucent to transparent milky or grayish quartz with distinctive microscopic crystals arranged in slender fibers in parallel bands.

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  1. Late Latin chalcēdonius, from Greek khalkēdōn, a mystical stone (Revelation 21:19), perhaps from Khalkēdōn, Chalcedon.

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  1. Altered, with immediate ref. to the Latin, from Middle English calcidoine, cassidoine, cassedony (later English cassidony), from Old French calcedoine, French calcédoine = Spanish Italian calcedonia = Portuguese chalcedonia, from Latin chalcedonius (properly adjective ‘of Chalcedon’), chalcedony, from Greek χαλκηδων, a precious stone found at Chalcedon, Χαλκηδών, an ancient Greek town in Asia Minor nearly opposite to Byzantium or Constantinople.
 

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/kælˈsɛdəni/
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