Demantoid

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  • noun. A transparent, green variety of garnet used as a gem.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A light-green to emerald-green variety of garnet, found in the Ural mountains. It is transparent and of brilliant luster, and is classed as a gem.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A yellow-green, transparent variety of garnet found in the Urals. It is valued as a gem because of its brilliancy of luster, whence the name.
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  • noun. a green garnet
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  • noun. a green andradite used as a gemstone
    • Word Usage
    "Andradite garnet, of the variety known as demantoid, from its diamond-like properties, and which is usually sold under the misleading name "olivine" in the trade, comes from the western slopes of the Ural"
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    andradite  
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