aquamarine
See also: Aquamarine
English
Etymology
From Latin aqua (“water”) + marinus (“marine”), adjective form from mare (“sea”)
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -iːn
Noun
aquamarine (countable and uncountable, plural aquamarines)
- The bluish-green colour of the sea.
- aquamarine:
- A bluish-green variety of beryl.
- 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 4, in 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.
Translations
aquamarine colour
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type of beryl
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Adjective
aquamarine (not comparable)
- Of a bluish-green colour.
Translations
Of a bluish-green color
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Derived terms
See also
- (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, dark blue, Dodger blue, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, light blue, 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)
Further reading
- David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Aquamarine”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
- “aquamarine”, in Mindat.org[2], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.
German
Adjective
aquamarine
- inflection of aquamarin:
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