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New Zealand greenstone

British  

noun

  1. a variety of nephrite from New Zealand, used as a gemstone

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In Hokitika, a major center for carving New Zealand greenstone, many of our group showed up for dinner with new jewelry.

From Washington Post

It was one of the three nude natives that had rushed by us on the trail a few hours before, and he clasped in his right hand a long knife of New Zealand greenstone that had been inlaid with gold in an intricate design.

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