amethyst
noun
a purple or violet quartz, used as a gem.
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
E. amethystinum is the best, having small globular flower heads of an amethystine blue color, this color also extending quite a way down the flower stems.
From Making a Garden of Perennials by W. C. (William Constantine) Egan
On the far amethystine peaks of the Blue Ridge leaned milky-breasted clouds through which the sun sifted in wide bars.
From The Valiants of Virginia by Hallie Erminie Rives
Each pair of trees between their stems and arch of intermingling leaves includes a space of plain checkered with cloud-shadows, melting blue and green in amethystine haze.
From New Italian sketches by John Addington Symonds
