aquamarine
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1.
a transparent, light-blue or greenish-blue variety of beryl, used as a gem.
2.
light blue-green or greenish blue.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a pale greenish-blue transparent variety of beryl used as a gemstone |
| 2. | a. a pale blue to greenish-blue colour |
| b. (as adjective): an aquamarine dress | |
| [C19: from New Latin aqua marīna, from Latin: sea water (referring to the gem's colour)] | |
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Aquamarine
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Word Origin & History
aquamarine
1590s, "bluish-green type of beryl," from Fr. or Prov., from L. aqua marina "sea water," from aqua "water" + marina, fem. of marinus "of the sea." Apparently first used as a description of a bluish-green color by John Ruskin, 1846. Abbreviation aqua is attested from 1936.
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Example sentences
One had an amethyst necklace, another an aquamarine pin, a third a citrine ring.
Small first- to second-year adjacent to area of multi-year floes with aquamarine melt ponds.
Every pebble and rock outcrop on the deep bottom of the aquamarine sea is visible.
He stood before her, his fly only partially zipped, revealing aquamarine nylon underpants.
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