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amazonstone

noun

Etymology

From Amazon + stone, after the Amazon river.

  1. derived from *steyh₂-✻ — “to stiffen”
  2. inherited from *stainaz✻ — “stone”
  3. inherited from *stain✻
  4. inherited from stān
  5. inherited from ston
  6. compounded as amazonstone — “Amazon + stone”

Definitions

  1. A bluish-green variety of microcline feldspar used as a gemstone. The best known…

    A bluish-green variety of microcline feldspar used as a gemstone. The best known occurrences are at Crystal Peak and Pike's Peak in Colorado.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for amazonstone. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA