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单词 adamantine lustre
释义

adamant /adˈə-mənt or -mant/

noun
  1. A name applied by the ancients to various hard substances, eg steel
  2. An imaginary rock with fabulous properties
  3. Diamond (obsolete)
  4. Lodestone (obsolete)
adjective

Unyielding

ORIGIN: Gr adamas, -antos, prob orig steel, also diamond, from a- (privative), and damaein to tame or overcome

adamantēˈan adjective (Milton)

Hard as adamant

adamanˈtine adjective

  1. Unbreakable
  2. Impregnable
  3. Impenetrable
  4. Magnetically attractive (obsolete)

adˈamantly adverb

adamantine lustre noun (mineralogy)

A lustre similar to the metallic but without opacity

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