Meanings
plural chrysoprases
- chemistryA variety of light-green translucent quartz.
With shaken soul of light and shuddering blaze Of leaping emerald and cold chrysoprase
1911, George Sterling, Duandon2 more examples
[…]or such pale green and uncertain as we see in sunset sky, and in the clefts of the glacier and the chrysoprase,[…]
1846, [John Ruskin], chapter 10, in Modern Painters […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part III (Of Ideas of Beauty), section II (Of the Imaginative Faculty), § 7, page 79On the back of one cover BRADSHAW, in beryls, was encrusted; on the back of the other, A.B.C. GUIDE, in amethysts, beryls, chrysoprases, and garnets.
1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson
Origin
- Ancient Greekχρῡσόπρασος
- Englishchrysoprase
From Ancient Greek χρῡσόπρασος (khrūsóprasos).
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Ancient Greek χρυσόπρασος
- χρυσόπρασος (khrusóprasos)variety of quartz
Bulgarian хризопра́з
- хризопра́з (hrizopráz)variety of quartz
Catalan crisopras, crisoprasi
- crisoprasvariety of quartz
- crisoprasivariety of quartz
Chinese Mandarin 綠玉髓 /绿玉髓
- 綠玉髓 /绿玉髓 (lǜyùsuǐ)variety of quartz
Danish krysopras, chrysopras
- krysoprasvariety of quartz
- chrysoprasvariety of quartz
Dutch chrysopraas
- chrysopraasvariety of quartz
Esperanto krizopraso, ĥrizoprazo
- krizoprasovariety of quartz
- ĥrizoprazovariety of quartz
Estonian krüsopraas
- krüsopraasvariety of quartz
Finnish krysopraasi
- krysopraasivariety of quartz
French chrysoprase
- chrysoprasevariety of quartz
German Chrysopras
- Chrysoprasvariety of quartz
Hungarian krizopráz
- krizoprázvariety of quartz
Indonesian krisopras
- krisoprasvariety of quartz
Italian crisoprasio, crisopraso
- crisoprasiovariety of quartz
- crisoprasovariety of quartz
- crisopaziovariety of quartz
Korean 녹옥수, 크리소프레이즈
- 녹옥수 (nogoksu)variety of quartz
- 크리소프레이즈 (keurisopeureijeu)variety of quartz
Latvian hrizoprāzs
- hrizoprāzsvariety of quartz
Lithuanian chrizoprazas
- chrizoprazasvariety of quartz
Māori karihoparaha
- karihoparahavariety of quartz
Polish chryzopraz
- chryzoprazvariety of quartz
Portuguese crisoprásio, crisopraso
- crisoprásiovariety of quartz
- crisoprasovariety of quartz
Russian хризопра́з
- хризопра́з (xrizopráz)variety of quartz
Spanish crisoprasa
- crisoprasavariety of quartz
Swahili krisopraso
- krisoprasovariety of quartz
Swedish krysopras, chrysopras
- krysoprasvariety of quartz
- chrysoprasvariety of quartz
Tagalog krisopasyo
- krisopasyovariety of quartz
Turkish krizopras
- krizoprasvariety of quartz
Welsh crysopras
- crysoprasvariety of quartz
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