Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A soft stone, of a grayish or greenish color, found in China and elsewhere.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called
figure stone , andpagodite . It is probably a variety of pinite.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and
pagodite . It is probably a variety ofpinite .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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a soft, unctuous stone resembling steatite (soapstone); it is true agalmatolite, a mineral popularly called pagoda stone.
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