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Amethystine adj.

Resembling amethyst, especially in color; bluish violet.

Composed of, or containing, amethyst.

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Etymology of 'Amethystine'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Amethystine" Quotes from Famous Books

... specimens, there is first a lining of colourless siliceous crystals, then another lining of amethystine crystals, and sometimes within that, fuliginous crystals. Upon these fuliginous and amethystine crystals are many sphericles or hemispheres of red ...

— Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) • James Hutton

... are known as banded agate, riband agate and striped agate. Certain agates also occur, to a limited extent, in veins, of which a notable example is the beautiful brecciated agate of Schlottwitz, near Wesenstein in Saxony—a stone mostly composed of angular fragments of agate cemented with amethystine quartz. ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... had set and the cold mists were blowing across from the fall and closing around the cabin like a veil of amethystine dye, when Amalia saw them moving about the cabin door as if preparing to depart. Her heart rose, and she signaled her mother, but no. They went indoors again, and she saw them no more. In truth they had disputed ...

— The Eye of Dread • Payne Erskine

... of fand into the waves. On this side the outlook is bounded by the high range of Pollino and Dolcedorme, serrated peaks that are even now (midsummer) displaying a few patches of snow. Clear-cut in the morning light, these exquisite mountains evaporate, towards sunset, in an amethystine ...

— Old Calabria • Norman Douglas

Words linked to "Amethystine" : amethystine python, amethyst