Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See vesuvianite.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The mineral vesuvianite.
Wiktionary
- n. geology vesuvianite
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Min.) Same as vesuvianite.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a green or yellow or brown mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate; it occurs as crystals in limestone and is used a gemstone
Etymologies
- French : Greek eidos, form; see weid- in Indo-European roots + krāsis, mixture; see idiosyncrasy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Nepheline, leucite, idocrase, and meionite have not yet been seen at the peak of”
“Nepheline, leucite, idocrase, and meionite have not yet been seen at the peak of Teneriffe; for a reddish-grey lava, which we found on the slope of Monte Verde, and which contains small microscopic crystals, appears to me to be a close mixture of basalt and analcime.”
“Tr. [footnote] ** Of minerals purposely produced, we may mention idocrase and garnet (Mitscherlich, in Poggend.,”
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
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Open List: Greens
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illation, finite, edify, abide, abrade, vouch, amiss, vociferate, perusing, techantiquery, rigamarole, holon and 615 more...
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Dewitful
visions of witfulness and vision - a wise guise
revision, advisor, ideal, witty, witness, veda, druid, penguin, hadal, idea, story, history and 269 more...
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rumali In my first Scrabble Nationals (New Orleans, 2005?), I misspelled this word on my first game, which led to a challenge and surely contributed to that loss. Fast forward a couple of years and I hang a C on a triple-lane, and, with a blank, pull out the necessary letters for IDOCRASE as a triple-triple. Jan 15, 2009