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Actinolite
noun · 78% connection
A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: calcium, fluoride, mineral, many, different.
Amphibole
noun · 78% connection
A common mineral embracing many varieties varying in color and in composition. It occurs in monoclinic crystals; also massive, general…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: calcium, fluoride, mineral, many, different.
Apatite
noun · 78% connection
Native phosphate of lime, occurring usually in six-sided prisms, color often pale green, transparent or translucent.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: calcium, fluoride, mineral, many, different.
Barite
noun · 78% connection
Native sulphate of barium, a mineral occurring in transparent, colorless, white to yellow crystals (generally tabular), also in granul…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: calcium, fluoride, mineral, many, different.
Beryl
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: calcium, fluoride, mineral, many, different.
Calcareous
adjective · 78% connection
Partaking of the nature of calcite or calcium carbonate; consisting of, or containing, calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: calcium, fluoride, mineral, many, different.
Calcification
noun · 78% connection
The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: calcium, fluoride, mineral, many, different.
Calypso
noun · 78% connection
A small and beautiful species of orchid, having a flower variegated with purple, pink, and yellow. It grows in cold and wet localities…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: calcium, fluoride, mineral, many, different.
Carnation
noun · 78% connection
The natural color of flesh; rosy pink.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: calcium, fluoride, mineral, many, different.
Cassius
noun · 78% connection
A brownish purple pigment, obtained by the action of some compounds of tin upon certain salts of gold. It is used in painting and stai…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: calcium, fluoride, mineral, many, different.
Chrysolite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral, composed of silica, magnesia, and iron, of a yellow to green color. It is common in certain volcanic rocks; -- called also…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: calcium, fluoride, mineral, many, different.
Compare
verb · 78% connection
To examine the character or qualities of, as of two or more persons or things, for the purpose of discovering their resemblances or di…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: calcium, fluoride, mineral, many, different.
Dichroism
noun · 78% connection
The property of presenting different colors by transmitted light, when viewed in two different directions, the colors being unlike in…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: calcium, fluoride, mineral, many, different.
Fluocerite
noun · 78% connection
A fluoride of cerium, occuring near Fahlun in Sweden. Tynosite, from Colorado, is probably the same mineral.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: calcium, fluoride, mineral, many, different.
Gillyflower
noun · 78% connection
A name given by old writers to the clove pink (Dianthus Caryophyllus) but now to the common stock (Matthiola incana), a cruciferous pl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: calcium, fluoride, mineral, many, different.
Gooseberry
adjective · 78% connection
Any thorny shrub of the genus Ribes; also, the edible berries of such shrub. There are several species, of which Ribes Grossularia is…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: calcium, fluoride, mineral, many, different.
Greenfinch
noun · 78% connection
A European finch (Ligurinus chloris); -- called also green bird, green linnet, green grosbeak, green olf, greeny, and peasweep.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: calcium, fluoride, mineral, many, different.
Hornblende
noun · 78% connection
The common black, or dark green or brown, variety of amphibole. (See Amphibole.) It belongs to the aluminous division of the species,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: calcium, fluoride, mineral, many, different.
