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Chrysolite

//ˈkɹɪs.əˌlaɪt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Originally, any of various green-coloured gems; later specifically peridot. countable, uncountable

    "Fran. Rueus[…]say as much of the chrysolite, a friend of wisdome, an enemy to folly."

  2. 2
    a brown or yellow-green olivine found in igneous and metamorphic rocks and used as a gemstone wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English crisolite, from Old French crisolite, from Medieval Latin crisolitus, Latin chrȳsolithus, from Ancient Greek χρῡσόλιθος (khrūsólithos), from χρῡσός (khrūsós, “gold”) + λίθος (líthos, “stone”). By surface analysis, chryso- (“pertaining to gold”) + -lite (“pertaining to rocks, minerals”).

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