vesuvianite jade

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noun

a green variety of vesuvianite, used as a gem: not a true jade.

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Also called californite.

Words nearby vesuvianite jade

vestry, vestryman, vesture, Vesuvian, vesuvianite, vesuvianite jade, Vesuvius, vet, vetch, vetchling, veter.

How to use vesuvianite jade in a sentence

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Is he a bearded Mongolian warrior on horseback, decked out in lustrous jade and gold armor?
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Frey was watching her and then he was glancing sideways to a little jade box that held cigarettes.
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She blinked some more and then she reached out to the little jade box and took a cigarette.
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Kano sat as she had left him, motionless, now, as the white jade vase within the tokonoma.
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Here are found richly hand-carved furniture, splendid jade and malachite vases.
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And so staid without a good while, and saw my Lady Peters, an impudent jade, soliciting all the Lords on her behalf.
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