Sapphirine

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of or resembling sapphire.
  • n. A rare light blue or green aluminum-magnesium silicate mineral.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A rare silicate of magnesium and aluminium (with iron as a major impurity), named for its sapphirelike colour.
  • adj. Of, pertaining to, or resembling sapphire
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Resembling sapphire; made of sapphire; having the color, or any quality of sapphire.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Made of sapphire.
  • Having the qualities of sapphire, especially the color. Compare sapphire, a.
  • n. A blue variety of spinel.
  • n. A pale-blue or greenish mineral occurring in disseminated grains with mica and anthophyllite in Greenland: it is a highly basic silicate of aluminium and magnesium.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a rare light blue or green mineral; consists of aluminum and magnesium silicate and occurs as small grains in some metamorphic rocks
  • adj. made of or resembling sapphire
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
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