chrysoprase
noun/ˈkɹɪsəˌpɹeɪz/
Etymology From Ancient Greek χρῡσόπρασος (khrūsóprasos).
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Chemistry, Geography, Geology, Mineralogy, Natural sciences, Physical sciences 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:
- On the back of one cover BRADSHAW, in beryls, was encrusted; on the back of the other, A.B.C. GUIDE, in amethysts, beryls, chrysoprases, and garnets.1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson:
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- With shaken soul of light and shuddering blaze Of leaping emerald and cold chrysoprase1911, George Sterling, Duandon: