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beryline

beryline is the alternative form of berylline.

Meaning of berylline

Adjective

berylline (comparative more berylline, superlative most berylline)

  1. Beryl-like; having a light blue-green colour.
    • He held out his leg so that I could examine the shackle about his ankle. His berylline flesh was swollen about it, as I have seen the bark of a tree swollen that had grown through an iron ring.1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter III, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 28

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Forms of beryline

comparativemore beryline
superlativemost beryline

Questions about beryline

What is beryline the alternative form of?
Beryline is the alternative form of berylline.

Words near beryline in the dictionary

  1. beryciforms
  2. berycoid
  3. beryl
  4. beryl-spangled tanager
  5. beryl-spangled tanagers
  6. beryline
  7. berylium
  8. beryllate
  9. beryllates
  10. beryllia
  11. beryllias

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