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berylline

berylline adjective: beryl-like; having a light blue-green colour.

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

Noun

berylline (countable and uncountable, plural beryllines)

  1. The berylline color.
  2. (countable) berylline hummingbird

Forms of berylline

Adjective
comparativemore berylline
superlativemost berylline
Noun
pluralberyllines

Origin of berylline

From beryl + -ine.

Words formed from berylline

  • berylline hummingbird

Questions about berylline

What does berylline mean?
Berylline means beryl-like; having a light blue-green colour.
What part of speech is berylline?
Berylline can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near berylline in the dictionary

  1. beryllia
  2. beryllias
  3. beryllide
  4. beryllides
  5. berylliferous
  6. berylline
  7. beryllines
  8. beryllioses
  9. berylliosis
  10. berylliotic
  11. beryllite

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