garnet

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This inferior variety of the iron-alumina garnet is called the "common" garnet, and has little lustre, being sometimes opaque.

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  1. noun Any of several common, widespread aluminum or calcium silicate minerals occurring in two internally isomorphic series, (Mg, Mn, Fe)3Al2Si3O12 and Ca3(Cr, Al, Fe)2Si3O12, generally crystallized, often embedded in igneous and metamorphic rocks, and colored red, brown, black, green, yellow, or white and used both as gemstones and as abrasives.
  2. noun A dark to very dark red.
  3. noun Nautical A tackle for hoisting light cargo.

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  • A clock of royal magnificence and two vases of pale green garnet, also Bouchardon's "Christ" in a frame by Brustolone. —  Honoré de Balzac
  • Ehrenwald advises looking for something with a colorful center stone, such as garnet or aquamarine. —  Paramus Post
  • The red garnet (it comes in every color but blue!) sets ablaze the inner fires of self-confidence, creativity and reflection - so perfect for both you and Suzie!
  • The garnet is one of my favorite stones which coincidentally is my birth stone.
  • It's out with the old orange, dusty gravel and in with a railroad car full of new crushed garnet, after a thorough cleaning of the walls, floors, and ceiling. —  Planetary Society Daily Almanac
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  1. Middle English, from Old French grenate, from grenat, pomegranate-red, probably from Latin grānātum, pomegranate, from neuter of grānātus, seedy; see pomegranate.
  2. Middle English garnett, probably from Middle Dutch garnāt.

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  1. from Middle English garnet, garnette, also grenat, from Old French grenat, grenet, French grenat = Spanish Portuguese granate = Italian granato = Dutch granaat = G. Danish Swedish granat, from Middle Latin granatus, also graṇatinus (sc. lapis, stone), a garnet; prob. so called in reference to its fine crimson color (cf. Middle Latin granata, also granum, the cochineal-insect, and the scarlet dye obtained from it—the insect being supposed to be a berry or seed), from Latin granum, a grain, seed: see grain. Otherwise “so called from its resemblance in color and shape to the grains or seeds of the pomegranate [L. granatum: see pomegranate
  2. Origin obscure.
 

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