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chrysoprasus

chrysoprasus is the obsolete form 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

Forms of chrysoprasus

pluralchrysoprasi

Origin of chrysoprasus

Latin

Questions about chrysoprasus

What is chrysoprasus the obsolete form of?
Chrysoprasus is the obsolete form of chrysoprase.

Words near chrysoprasus in the dictionary

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

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