Amethyst

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A purple or violet form of transparent quartz used as a gemstone.
  • n. A purple variety of corundum used as a gemstone.
  • n. A moderate purple to grayish reddish purple.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A transparent purple variety of quartz, used as a gemstone.
  • n. A purple colour.
  • n. The purple tincture when emblazoning the arms of the English nobility.
  • adj. Having a colour similar to that of the gemstone
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • A variety of crystallized quartz, of a purple or bluish violet color, of different shades. It is much used as a jeweler's stone.
  • A purple color in a nobleman's escutcheon, or coat of arms.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A violet-blue or purple variety of quartz, the color being perhaps due to the presence of peroxid of iron.
  • n. In heraldry, the color purple when described in blazoning a nobleman's escutcheon. See tincture.
  • n. The name of a humming-bird, Calliphlox amethystina.
  • n. A trade-name for certain artificial dyes of the azine class, as tetramethyl safranine and tetra-amyl safranine.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. of a moderate purple color
  • n. a transparent purple variety of quartz; used as a gemstone
    • Equivalent
    chromatic   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    quartz    transparent gem   
    Cross Reference
    oriental amethyst    burnt amethyst    Colours   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    topaz    chalcedony    sapphire    jasper    lazuli   
     
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