amethystine
- a word derived from amethyst.
Example Sentences
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JMB Reptiles, a snake removal and relocation service located in Innisfail, took to Facebook earlier this month with photos of a scrub python, more formally known as an amethystine python, devouring a helpless wallaby.
From Fox News • Feb. 13, 2019
There were at least three species of scorpion in camp, and the native amethystine pythons were known to grow to 28 feet.
From Slate • Nov. 7, 2011
The Romans had at their command, of transparent colours, blue, green, purple or amethystine, amber, brown and rose; of opaque colours, white, black, red, blue, yellow, green and orange.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various
Flowers of a full, bright-blue colour are often described as of a "brilliant amethystine blue."
From Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur by Jekyll, Gertrude
Fairy islets dotted its dazzling surface while the land masses on either hand were clothed in amethystine haze.
From The Locusts' Years by Fee, Mary Helen
