Jasper

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An opaque cryptocrystalline variety of quartz that may be red, yellow, or brown.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A wasp. (West Country dialects, Somerset County)
  • n. A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple.
  • n. Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian.
  • n. An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
  • n. Jasperware pottery.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking with a smooth surface. It admits of a high polish, and is used for vases, seals, snuff boxes, etc. When the colors are in stripes or bands, it is called striped jasper or banded jasper. The Egyptian pebble is a brownish yellow jasper.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Among the ancients, a bright-colored chalcedony (not, however, including carnelian), translucent and varying in color, green being apparently most common. It was highly esteemed as a precious stone.
  • n. In modern usage, a closely compact crypto-crystalline variety of quartz, opaque or nearly so, and colored red, yellow, or brown, or less often green.
  • n. An earthenware made of pounded spar.
  • n. Same as jasper-ware.
  • Same as jasperize.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an opaque form of quartz; red or yellow or brown or dark green in color; used for ornamentation or as a gemstone
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    opaque gem   
    Cross Reference
    jasperware   
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    Words with the same terminal sound
    Caspar    Casper    Gaspar    asper    gasper   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    onyx    amethyst    beryl    chalcedony    carnelian    agate    javac    malachite    garnet    porphyry