单词 | precious garnet |
释义 | > as lemmasprecious garnet precious garnet n. [after German edler Granat ( L. A. Emmerling Lehrb. der Mineralogie (1797) III. 246)] a glassy red form of garnet from which gemstones may be cut; pyrope garnet. ΚΠ 1804 R. Jameson Syst. Mineral. I. 64 Garnet. Werner divides this species into two subspecies, the precious garnet, and common garnet. 1892 E. W. Streeter Precious Stones (ed. 5) 286 The Almandine, or Precious Garnet. 1957 H. S. Zim & P. R. Shaffer Rocks & Minerals 104 Pyrope is sometimes called precious garnet, though it is mined in large quantities for garnet paper. 1966 Philos. Sci. 33 72 All rubies and precious garnets are red. < as lemmas |
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