Chrysolite
//ˈkɹɪs.əˌlaɪt// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 a brown or yellow-green olivine found in igneous and metamorphic rocks and used as a gemstone wordnet
Example
More examples"Fran. Rueus[…]say as much of the chrysolite, a friend of wisdome, an enemy to folly."
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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