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单词 sapphirine
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sapphirinen.

/ˈsafɪrʌɪn/
Forms: Also saphirine.
Etymology: < sapphire n. + -ine suffix5.
Mineralogy.
1. A silicate of aluminium and magnesium found in pale blue grains.
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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > miscellaneous silicates > [noun] > aluminium and one other
petalite1808
sapphirine1823
triclasite1835
neolite1854
maconite1873
melanosiderite1875
sapphirite1883
facellite1891
ganophyllite1892
sursassite1928
1823 H. J. Brooke Familiar Introd. Crystallogr. 489 Sapphirine..appears from analysis to be a distinct species, but I cannot ascertain its crystalline form.
1836 T. Thomson Outl. Mineral. I. 218 Sapphirine. This mineral was discovered by Sir Charles Giesecke, in Greenland... It has a pale sapphire blue colour.
2. A blue variety of spinel.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > spinel > [noun]
balas1414
spinel1528
spinelle1555
espinel?1590
balas-ruby1596
rubicelle1653
spinel ruby1668
ruby spinel1796
spinelle ruby1802
sapphirine1883
taaffeite1951
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > oxides and hydroxides > [noun] > spinel group AB2 O4 > others
picotite1814
franklinite1820
hausmannite1831
hercynite1849
jacobsite1869
hetaerolite1877
trippkeite1881
sapphirine1883
water-spinel1883
manganomagnetite1890
chrome-spinel1892
magnesiochromite1892
magnochromite1892
picrochromite1920
trevorite1921
ulvöspinel1947
taaffeite1951
nickel spinel1961
1883 M. F. Heddle in Encycl. Brit. XVI. 386/2 Spinel..Sapphirine is pale sapphire-blue to greenish or reddish blue.
3. An early name for blue chalcedony. Obsolete.The term (in German form saphirin) was applied in its now usual meaning by Giesecke 1819; it had been used in 1808 by K. W. Nose for haüynite.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > rock crystal > [noun] > chalcedony > other varieties of chalcedony
Mocha stone1679
sapphirine1866
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > tectosilicate > [noun] > quartz > cryptocrystalline quartz > chalcedony > others
jasperc1330
jaspa1350
jaspis1382
jasper stone1517
diasper1582
Mocha stone1679
haytorite1827
sapphirine1866
1866 W. T. Brande & G. W. Cox Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art (new ed.) II. 533/1 Chalcedonic Quartz..Saphirine.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

sapphirineadj.1

/ˈsafɪrʌɪn/
Forms: Middle English saphyryn, 1600s saphyrin, 1600s–1700s saphirine, 1700s–1800s sappharine, 1600s– sapphirine.
Etymology: < Latin sapphīrinus, < Greek σαπϕείρινος , < σάπϕειρος sapphire n.
a. Consisting of or like sapphire, having the qualities of sapphire, esp. the colour. sapphirine gurnard: see gurnard n. 1a.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [adjective] > bright blue
sapphirine1413
sapphire1433
sapphire-hued1446
sapphire-coloureda1586
sapphiric1605
sapphire-blue1782
electric blue1877
pirate blue1896
kingfisher blue1915
halcyon blue1922
blue-brilliant1923
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > corundum gemstones > [adjective] > sapphire
sapphire1433
sapphirine1672
hyacinthian1714
1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1859) v. v. 76 This Cercle in his bordure was of mesurable brede of coloure, saphyryn, and was redyly lyned by ordre, and set full of sterres.
a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 296 She was too Saphirine and cleare to thee; Clay, flint, and jeat now thy fit dwellings be.
1672 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 7 5044 The same water..appears of a Saphyrin blew.
1672 R. Boyle Ess. Origine & Virtues Gems i. 38 Jewellers reckon among Saphires..another sort of Stones, because of their Saphirine degree of hardness.
1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 176 The irides sappharine; the head flat.
1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) III. iv. 280 Sapphirine Gurnard.
1833 Fraser's Mag. 8 63 The sapphirine pavement of heaven.
1835 R. Browning Paracelsus ii. 60 No nymph..Or sapphirine spirit of a twilight star.
1878 T. Hardy Return of Native III. iv. v. 21 The sapphirine hue of the zenith in spring.
b. absol.
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1822 W. Tennant Thane of Fife i. xxxi He..with his feet..Smote soundingly the pavement's sapphirine.
1887 R. Browning Parleyings 182 Thunder from the safe sky's sapphirine.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

sapphirineadj.2

Etymology: < modern Latin Sapphirina, substantive use of the feminine of Latin sapphīrinus : see sapphirine adj.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsapphirine.
Of or pertaining to, or characteristic of the Sapphirina, a genus of copepods of the N.O. Sapphirinidæ.
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1897 Jrnl. Mar. Zool. Dec. 111 Sapphirine copepods.
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