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chrysoprases

chrysoprases is the plural of chrysoprase.

Meaning of chrysoprase

Noun

chrysoprase (plural chrysoprases)

  1. A variety of light-green translucent quartz.
    • […]or such pale green and uncertain as we see in sunset sky, and in the clefts of the glacier and the chrysoprase,[…]1846, [John Ruskin], chapter 10, in Modern Painters […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part III (Of Ideas of Beauty), section II (Of the Imaginative Faculty), § 7, page 79

Questions about chrysoprases

What is chrysoprases the plural of?
Chrysoprases is the plural of chrysoprase.

Words near chrysoprases in the dictionary

  1. chrysopids
  2. chrysopoeia
  3. chrysopoeian
  4. chrysopoetic
  5. chrysoprase
  6. chrysoprases
  7. chrysoprasi
  8. chrysoprasus
  9. chrysopsin
  10. chrysopsins
  11. chrysorhamnin

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