Meanings
adjectiveberylline (comparative more berylline, superlative most berylline)
comparative more berylline · superlative most berylline
- Beryl-like; having a light blue-green colour.
He held out his leg so that I could examine the shackle about his ankle. His berylline flesh was swollen about it, as I have seen the bark of a tree swollen that had grown through an iron ring.
1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter III, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 28
nounberylline (countable and uncountable, plural beryllines)
plural beryllines
- countableuncountableThe berylline color.
- countableberylline hummingbird
Origin
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