aquamarine
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin aqua (“water”) + marinus (“marine”), adjective form from mare (“sea”)
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
aquamarine (plural aquamarines)
- The bluish-green colour of the sea.
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aquamarine colour:
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- A bluish-green variety of beryl.
- 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 4, Crime out of Mind[1]:
- Before we could embark on the details of his mother's health we were joined by a fair, plump woman of indefinite age, who had once been—and at moments still was—very pretty. She wore a simple black silk dress, perhaps in deference to Tilly's death, though the note of mourning was jarred by flamboyant aquamarine ear-rings and too much rouge.
- 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 4, Crime out of Mind[1]:
Translations [edit]
aquamarine colour
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type of beryl
Adjective [edit]
aquamarine (not comparable)
- Of a bluish-green colour.
Derived terms [edit]
See also [edit]
- (blues) blue; Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, cadet blue, Cambridge blue, cerulean, cobalt blue, Copenhagen blue, cornflower, cornflower blue, cyan, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric-blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, lovat, mazarine, midnight blue, navy, Nile blue, Oxford blue, peacock blue, petrol blue, powder blue, Prussian blue, robin's-egg blue, royal blue, sapphire, saxe blue, slate blue, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre (Category: en:Blues)
