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turmaline

turmaline is the alternative form of tourmaline.

Meaning of tourmaline

Noun

tourmaline (countable and uncountable, plural tourmalines)

  1. A complex black or dark-coloured borosilicate mineral, compounded with various chemical elements and considered a semi-precious stone.
    • The floor of the chamber was tesselated, of marble and green tourmaline, and on every square of tourmaline was carven the image of a fish: as the dolphin, the conger, the cat-fish, the salmon, the tunny, the squid, and other wonders of the deep.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 3
  2. A transparent gemstone cut from it.

Forms of turmaline

pluralturmalines

Questions about turmaline

What is turmaline the alternative form of?
Turmaline is the alternative form of tourmaline.

Words near turmaline in the dictionary

  1. turlough
  2. turloughs
  3. Turlupin
  4. Turlupins
  5. turm
  6. turmaline
  7. turmalines
  8. Turman
  9. Turmans
  10. turmat
  11. turmats

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Adapted from Wiktionary: turmaline (page history and authors); tourmaline (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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