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Webster 1913 Edition

Chrysoprase

Chrys′o-prase

,
Noun.
[OE.
crisopace
, OF.
crisoprace
, F.
chrysoprase
, L.
chrysoprasus
, fr. Gr. [GREEK];
χρυσόσ
gold + [GREEK] leek.]
(Min.)
An apple-green variety of chalcedony, colored by nickel. It has a dull flinty luster, and is sometimes used in jewelry.

Webster 1828 Edition

Chrysoprase

CHRYSOPRASE

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Noun.
A mineral, a subspecies of quartz. Its color is commonly apple green, and often extremely beautiful. It is translucent, or sometimes semi-transparent; its fracture even and dull, sometimes a little splintery, sometimes smooth and slightly conchoidal; its harness a little inferior to that of flint.

Definition 2024

chrysoprase

chrysoprase

English

Noun

chrysoprase ‎(usually uncountable, plural chrysoprases)

  1. (mineralogy) A variety of light-green translucent quartz.
    • 1911, George Sterling, Duandon:
      With shaken soul of light and shuddering blaze / Of leaping emerald and cold chrysoprase

Translations

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χρυσός ‎(khrusós, “gold”) and πράσινον ‎(prásinon, “green”).

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