| 单词 | ruin jasper |
| 释义 | > as lemmasruin jasper C2. attributive. Designating varieties of ornamental stone distinguished by markings likened to the outline of ruined buildings, as ruin agate, ruin jasper, ruin marble. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > metamorphic rock > [noun] > marble > others Florentine marble1706 Carraraa1728 rosso antico1730 giallo antico1741 campan1794 dolomite1794 ruin marble1798 turquin1811 picrite1814 landscape marble1816 snow1848 Irish green1850 palombino1859 Tennessee marble1875 corallite1883 stalagmite marble1895 Piastraccia1909 the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > tectosilicate > [noun] > quartz > cryptocrystalline quartz > chert > jasper jasperc1330 riband jasper1790 ruin jasper1798 ribbon jasper1804 jasp1900 the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > tectosilicate > [noun] > quartz > cryptocrystalline quartz > chalcedony > agate > varieties sea-agatea1593 phassachate1634 sardachate1706 jaspagate1748 peacock stone1753 moss agate1798 ruin agate1798 1798 G. Mitchell tr. D. L. G. Karsten Descr. Minerals in Leskean Mus. I. v. 612 A slab of Florentine Ruin Marble. 1807 A. Aikin & C. R. Aikin Dict. Chem. & Mineral. I. 283/1 The landscape or ruin agate represents rocks or buildings. 1823 W. Phillips Elem. Introd. Mineral. (ed. 3) 20 Ruin-Jasper..is commonly known by the name of Ruin Agate, but its opacity..evinces that it ought to be classed with jaspers. 1876 Proc. Geologists’ Assoc. 1874–6 4 448 The brecciated state of some agates, from pressure, from contraction, or other causes, was noticed, as giving rise to some of the ‘Ruin-agates’. 1922 I. Kozminsky Magic & Sci. Jewels & Stones xix. 244 Ruin Jasper occurs in darker shades of browns and yellows, giving the appearance of venerable ruins. 1938 S. Beckett Murphy xii. 260 They carried him into the p.m. room, they laid him out on the slab of ruin marble in the key of the bay. 2004 M. Freeman Close-up Photogr. iii. 153 (caption) A common way of presenting rock specimens is in cut sections, such as this small slab of ruin marble. < as lemmas |
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