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ˈAmazon-stone Min.
[named from river Amazon.]
A mineral; a ‘bright verdigris-green and cleavable’ variety of orthoclase, worn as an amulet by the Indians of the Rio Negro.
1836Macgillivray tr. Humboldt's Trav. xviii. 266 Those green pebbles known by the name of Amazon-stones and worn as amulets. 1862Rawlinson Anc. Mon. I. vi. 474 They are cut upon serpentine, amazon-stone, and Lapis-lazuli. |