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citrines

citrines is the plural of citrine.

Meaning of citrine

Noun

citrine (countable and uncountable, plural citrines)

  1. A goldish-yellow colour, like that of a lemon.
    • dorrẹ̅, dōrī adj. & n. […] Golden or reddish-yellow […] (a. 1398) *Trev. Barth. 59b/a: ʒelouʒ colour [of urine] […] tokeneþ febleness of hete […] dorrey & citrine & liʒt red tokeneþ mene.c. 1398, quoted in Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, 1962, page 1242
  2. A brownish-yellow quartz.

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Questions about citrines

What is citrines the plural of?
Citrines is the plural of citrine.

Words near citrines in the dictionary

  1. citrine
  2. citrine ointment
  3. citrine ointments
  4. citrine wagtail
  5. citrine wagtails
  6. citrines
  7. Citrini
  8. citrinin
  9. citrinins
  10. citrinitas
  11. citrinous

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