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aventurine

/-tjʊə-/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A kind of brownish glass containing gold-coloured spangles.
  2. (by extension) A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data