Rating | Solver | Clue |
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CARBUNCLE | Garnet | |
GRANATE | See Garnet. | |
OUVAROVITE | Chrome garnet. | |
ALLOCHROITE | See Garnet. | |
MELANITE | A black variety of garnet. | |
TOPAZOLITE | A topaz-yellow variety of garnet. | |
SPESSARTITE | A manganesian variety of garnet. | |
ALMANDINE | The common red variety of garnet. | |
SUCCINITE | A garnet of an amber color. | |
COLOPHONITE | A coarsely granular variety of garnet. | |
ESSONITE | Cinnamon stone, a variety of garnet. See Garnet. | |
GROSSULAR | Pertaining too, or resembling, a gooseberry; as, grossular garnet. | |
ECLOGITE | A rock consisting of granular red garnet, light green smaragdite, and common hornblende; -- so called in reference to its beauty. | |
DEMANTOID | A yellow-green, transparent variety of garnet found in the Urals. It is valued as a gem because of its brilliancy of luster, whence the name. | |
PYROPE | A variety of garnet, of a poppy or blood-red color, frequently with a tinge of orange. It is used as a gem. See the Note under Garnet. | |
MUREXIDE | ...ndid dichroism, being green by reflected light and garnet-red by transmitted light. It was formerly used in dyeing calico, and was obtained in a... |