Emerald
WordNet
noun
(1) The green color of an emerald
(2) A transparent piece of emerald that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem
(3) A green transparent form of beryl; highly valued as a gemstone
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Proper noun
- A town in Queensland, Australia.
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- 1954 Theodore Sturgeon, The Golden Helix, in Leo Marguelis:Three Times Infinity, Fawcett Publications 1958, page 109:
- The child, a girl, was albino like April, and had exactly April's deep red eyes. Sol and Libra named her Emerald, a green name and a ground-term rather than a sky-term, as if in open expression of the slow spell worked on them all by Viridis.
- 1954 Theodore Sturgeon, The Golden Helix, in Leo Marguelis:Three Times Infinity, Fawcett Publications 1958, page 109: