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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: common, name, yellowish, green, mineral.
Appellative
noun · 78% connection
A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, name, yellowish, green, mineral.
Asbestos
noun · 78% connection
A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, name, yellowish, green, mineral.
Augite
noun · 78% connection
A variety of pyroxene, usually of a black or dark green color, occurring in igneous rocks, such as basalt; -- also used instead of the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, name, yellowish, green, mineral.
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: common, name, yellowish, green, mineral.
Bezoar
noun · 78% connection
A calculous concretion found in the intestines of certain ruminant animals (as the wild goat, the gazelle, and the Peruvian llama) for…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, name, yellowish, green, mineral.
Boltonite
noun · 78% connection
A granular mineral of a grayish or yellowish color, found in Bolton, Massachusetts. It is a silicate of magnesium, belonging to the ch…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, name, yellowish, green, mineral.
Booby
noun · 78% connection
A swimming bird (Sula fiber or S. sula) related to the common gannet, and found in the West Indies, nesting on the bare rocks. It is s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, name, yellowish, green, mineral.
Chlorite
noun · 78% connection
a generally green or black mineral; it occurs as a constituent of many rocks typically in the form of a flat crystal
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, name, yellowish, green, mineral.
Chlorophyll
noun · 78% connection
Literally, leaf green; a green granular matter formed in the cells of the leaves (and other parts exposed to light) of plants, to whic…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, name, yellowish, green, mineral.
Chondrule
noun · 78% connection
A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imbedded more or less abundantly in the mass of man…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, name, yellowish, green, mineral.
Corundum
noun · 78% connection
The earth alumina, as found native in a crystalline state, including sapphire, which is the fine blue variety; the oriental ruby, or r…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, name, yellowish, green, mineral.
Crystallite
noun · 78% connection
A minute mineral form like those common in glassy volcanic rocks and some slags, not having a definite crystalline outline and not ref…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, name, yellowish, green, mineral.
Demantoid
noun · 78% connection
A yellow-green, transparent variety of garnet found in the Urals. It is valued as a gem because of its brilliancy of luster, whence th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, name, yellowish, green, mineral.
Diallage
noun · 78% connection
A dark green or bronze-colored laminated variety of pyroxene, common in certain igneous rocks.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, name, yellowish, green, mineral.
Epidote
noun · 78% connection
A mineral, commonly of a yellowish green (pistachio) color, occurring granular, massive, columnar, and in monoclinic crystals. It is a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, name, yellowish, green, mineral.
Eruptive
adjective · 78% connection
Produced by eruption; as, eruptive rocks, such as the igneous or volcanic.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, name, yellowish, green, mineral.
Fayalite
noun · 78% connection
A black, greenish, or brownish mineral of the chrysolite group. It is a silicate of iron.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, name, yellowish, green, mineral.
