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garnet
1[ gahr-nit ]
noun
- any of a group of hard, vitreous minerals, silicates of calcium, magnesium, iron, or manganese with aluminum or iron, varying in color: a deep-red transparent variety is used as a gem and as an abrasive.
- a deep-red color.
Garnet
2[ gahr-nit ]
noun
- Henry Highland, 1815–82, U.S. clergyman and abolitionist.
garnet
1/ ˈɡɑːnɪt /
noun
- any of a group of hard glassy red, yellow, or green minerals consisting of the silicates of calcium, iron, manganese, chromium, magnesium, and aluminium in cubic crystalline form: used as a gemstone and abrasive. Formula: A 3 B 2 (SiO 4 ) 3 where A is a divalent metal and B is a trivalent metal
garnet
2/ ˈɡɑːnɪt /
noun
- nautical a tackle used for lifting cargo
garnet
/ gär′nĭt /
- Any of several common red, brown, black, green, or yellow minerals having the general chemical formula A 3 B 2 SiO 8 , where A is either calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), iron (Fe), or manganese (Mn) and B is either aluminum (Al), manganese, iron, chromium (Cr), or vanadium (V). Garnet crystals are dodecahedral in shape, transparent to semitransparent, and have a vitreous luster. They usually occur in metamorphic rocks but also occur in igneous and sedimentary rocks.
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Derived Forms
- ˈgarnet-ˌlike, adjective
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Other Words From
- garnet·like adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of garnet1
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Origin of garnet1
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Example Sentences
Even Garnet's gyro wrap is made with McLane farms seasoned lamb.
The Garnet Café, named for Idaho's state gem, really is precious.
Sweet potatoes with orange flesh—Garnet and Jewel types, for example—are too moist.
Before each guest stood a tiny glass that looked and sparkled like a garnet gem.
She could compare it to nothing she had ever seen, and the garnet lights which it emitted were unspeakably rare.
Henry Garnet, provincial of the Jesuits, executed for the gunpowder plot.
Thomas Garnet died; an English physician and chemist, and an author on chemistry, &c.
The new universe which we were entering was made up principally of red, ruby, and garnet suns.
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