noun. A brilliant green to grass-green transparent variety of beryl, used as a gemstone.

noun. A strong yellowish green.

adjective. Of a strong yellowish green.

noun. A variety of the mineral beryl, having a deep, clear green color, and when transparent highly prized as a gem.

noun. The name in Great Britain of a size of printing-type, intermediate between minion (which is larger) and nonpareil (which is smaller), and measuring 138 lines to the foot. It is not used in the United States.

noun. In entomology, one of several small green geometrid moths, as the grass emerald, Pseudoterpna pruinata, and the Essex emerald, Phorodesma smaragdaria.

Of a bright green, like emerald.

adjective. Of a rich green color, like that of the emerald.

adjective. a fish of the Gulf of Mexico (Gobionellus oceanicus), remarkable for the brilliant green and blue color of the base of the tongue; -- whence the name; -- called also esmeralda.

adjective. a very durable pigment, of a vivid light green color, made from the arseniate of copper; green bice; Scheele's green; -- also used adjectively.

adjective. a name given to Ireland on account of the brightness of its verdure.

adjective. See Hiddenite.

adjective. undefined

adjective. See Zaratite.

noun. A precious stone of a rich green color, a variety of beryl. See beryl.

noun. A kind of type, in size between minion and nonpare�l. It is used by English printers.

adjective. Of a rich green colour.

noun. Any of various green gemstones, especially a green transparent form of beryl, highly valued as a precious stone.

noun. emerald green

noun. a green transparent form of beryl; highly valued as a gemstone

noun. the green color of an emerald

noun. a transparent piece of emerald that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem

"According to Theophrastus, the stone which he calls emerald, and from which large obelists were cut, must have been an imperfect jasper."

Colours  beryl  brazilian emerald  ecclesiastical emerald  emerald copper  

lithia emerald  

smaragd  smaragdine  

Emerald  Emerald Isle  emerald cut  emerald green  

beryl  gem  green  greenness  jewel  

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