gemmeous

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adjective

Resembling or relating to gems.

OriginLatin gemmeus →
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Meanings

adjectivegemmeous (comparative more gemmeous, superlative most gemmeous)

comparative more gemmeous · superlative most gemmeous

  1. archaicResembling or relating to gems.

    They were not the Europeans alone, who were ſtruck with its [the honeysucker’s] great beauty; the natives of America, to whom it was ſo familiar, were affected with its gemmeous appearance, and beſtowed on it titles expreſſive of its reſplendent colors.

    1784, Thomas Pennant, Arctic Zoology

Origin

  1. Latingemmeus
  2. Englishgemmeous

From Latin gemmeus. See gem.

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Chicago

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