moss agate
a kind of agate or chalcedony containing brown or black mosslike dendritic markings from various impurities.
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How to use moss agate in a sentence
There was blood upon that moon, and all the shores were like veins in moss-agate and the sea like oil.
Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska | Charles Warren StoddardHis soft eyes hardened and the moss-agate look came into them.
Fore! | Charles Emmett Van LoanMr. Colon picked up a fine moss agate and the Professor a Kansas diamond.
Buffalo Land | W. E. WebbOn the street I met the stage manager and the tall, dark man just as they were coming out of the moss agate saloon.
Cordwood | Edgar Wilson (Bill) NyeIt is a chalky white, and shows a growth of moss like that of moss agate.
To and Through Nebraska | Frances I. Sims Fulton
British Dictionary definitions for moss agate
a variety of chalcedony with dark greenish mossy markings, used as a gemstone
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