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amazonite

/ˈæm.ə.zəˌnaɪt/

amazonite noun: a gem variety of microcline feldspar, varying from bright verdigris green to a bluish green.

amazonite: a gem variety of microcline feldspar, varying from bright verdigris green to a bluish green
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Noun

amazonite (countable and uncountable, plural amazonites)

  1. A gem variety of microcline feldspar, varying from bright verdigris green to a bluish green.

Forms of amazonite

pluralamazonites

Origin of amazonite

From Amazon + -ite; the gem does not actually come from the Amazon, but it was confused with an unrelated green stone that does.

Words formed from amazonite

Questions about amazonite

What does amazonite mean?
Amazonite means a gem variety of microcline feldspar, varying from bright verdigris green to a bluish green.
What part of speech is amazonite?
Amazonite is a noun.
How do you pronounce amazonite?
Amazonite is pronounced /ˈæm.ə.zəˌnaɪt/.
What is the plural of amazonite?
The plural of amazonite is amazonites.

Words near amazonite in the dictionary

  1. Amazonification
  2. Amazoning
  3. Amazonism
  4. Amazonist
  5. Amazonists
  6. amazonite
  7. amazonites
  8. amazonitic
  9. Amazonomachia
  10. Amazonomachiae
  11. Amazonomachiai

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Adapted from Wiktionary: amazonite (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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