Log in or Sign up

Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An apple-green chalcedony used as a gemstone.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A variety of chalcedony commonly apple-green in color and often extremely beautiful, so that it is much esteemed in jewelry. It is translucent, or sometimes semi-transparent, and of a hardness little inferior to that of flint.
  2. n. The ancient name of a golden-green precious stone, now generally believed to have been a variety of the beryl or possibly a green variety of fluor-spar (chlorophane), which possesses the properly of shining in the dark or by the heat of the hand.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A variety of light-green translucent quartz.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. An apple-green variety of chalcedony, colored by nickel. It has a dull flinty luster, and is sometimes used in jewelry.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a green variety of chalcedony valued as a gemstone

Etymologies

  1. Middle English crisopase, from Old French crisopras, from Latin chrȳsoprasus, from Greek khrūsoprasos : khrūso-, chryso- + prason, leek; see praseodymium.

Examples

Show 10 more examples...

Lists

These user-created lists contain the word ‘chrysoprase’.

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

  • tbtabby The most dangerous troll in Ankh-Morpork. Feb 8, 2012

  • chained_bear Wow. This is one beautiful word! And the meaning's not bad either.

    I think most words with "chryso-" in them are quite pleasing, and it isn't necessarily because of the sound--because "crisso" is not as pleasant. Oct 18, 2007

‘chrysoprase’ has been looked up 919 times, added to 14 lists, commented on 2 times, and has a Scrabble score of 21.