garnet
adjEtymology From Middle English gernet, granate, from Old French grenate, from grenat (“pomegranate red”). Doublet of grenade.
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Of a dark red colour.
garnet
nounUK /ˈɡɑː(ɹ).nət/
Etymology From Middle English gernet, granate, from Old French grenate, from grenat (“pomegranate red”). Doublet of grenade.
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Chemistry, Geography, Geology, Mineralogy, Natural sciences, Physical sciences A hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives.
- 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:
- How many needles Betty Flanders had lost there! and her garnet brooch.1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, page 127:
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- Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)2012 March 23, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2012, page 128:
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A dark red color, like that of the gemstone.
- Derived terms
- common garnet, cross-garnet, demantoid garnet, garnetberry, garnet brown, garnetiferous, garnet-throated hummingbird, garnet yam, garnierite, gooseberry garnet, hydrogarnet, mandarin garnet, Queen Garnet plum, rose garnet, tsavorite garnet, YAG, yttrium iron garnet
- Related terms
- grenade, pomegranate, allochroite, almandine, andradite, carbuncle, cinnamon stone, Colorado ruby, demantoid, essonite, grossularite, hessonite, melanite, ouvarovite, pyrope, rhodolite, spessartine, topazolite, tsavorite, uvarovite