"Fiorite" is a word in ENGLISH
A variety of opal occuring in the cavities of volcanic
tufa, in smooth and shining globular and botryoidal masses, having a
pearly luster; -- so called from Fiora, in Ischia.
A hero is not know by the number of battles he has won, but rather by the kind of battles he chooses to fight.
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abut () a variety of grain that gives a big yield or k. o. soil that yields well. Ábut kaáyu …
Read the complete definitionA bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.
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Read the complete definitionA transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries …
Read the complete definitionA soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called …
Read the complete definitionA semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged in stripes …
Read the complete definitionA hard, compact variety of carbonate of lime, somewhat translucent, or of banded shades of color; stalagmite. The name is …
Read the complete definitionA compact variety or sulphate of lime, or gypsum, of fine texture, and usually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, …
Read the complete definitionA kind of verse, so called from Alcaeus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, …
Read the complete definitionalimbáhon - A variety of coconut. See limbáhon, libáhon.
Read the complete definitionn. a variety of thin-skinned, small, greenish banana.
Read the complete definitionA variety of pseudomorph which has undergone partial or complete change or substitution of material; -- thus limonite is frequently …
Read the complete definitionThe common red variety of garnet.
Read the complete definitionAn animal of Peru (Lama paco), having long, fine, wooly hair, supposed by some to be a domesticated variety of …
Read the complete definitionalugbáti n k. o. vine, the leaves of which are widely used as a vegetable. Wild and cultivated, it has …
Read the complete definitionA variety of shale or clay slate, containing iron pyrites, the decomposition of which leads to the formation of alum, …
Read the complete definitionA variety of feldspar, having a verdigris-green color.
Read the complete definitionA variety of wheat from which starch is produced; -- called also French rice.
Read the complete definitionA variety of crystallized quartz, of a purple or bluish violet color, of different shades. It is much used as …
Read the complete definitionEarth flax, or mountain flax; a soft silky variety of asbestus.
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