hemachate
English
Etymology
Latin haemachates; Ancient Greek blood + agate.
Noun
hemachate (plural hemachates)
- (mineralogy) A variety of agate, sprinkled with spots of red jasper.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for hemachate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)