Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A brown or yellowish-brown variety of garnet.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as hessonite.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Min.) Cinnamon stone, a variety of garnet. See garnet.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun mineralogy Cinnamon stone, a variety of garnet.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a garnet ranging in color from yellow to brown

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, from Greek hēssōn, inferior (from its being softer than true hyacinth), comparative of ēka, hēka, slightly.]

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Named from Ancient Greek inferior, because not so hard as some minerals it resembles (e.g. hyacinth).

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