Garnet vs Turquoise - What's the difference?
garnet | turquoise |
(mineral) A hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 127:
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A dark red.
Of a dark red colour.
A sky-blue, greenish-blue, or greenish-gray semi-precious gemstone.
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A pale greenish-blue colour, like that of the gemstone.
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As adjectives the difference between garnet and turquoise
is that garnet is of a dark red colour while turquoise is .As a noun garnet
is (mineral) a hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives or garnet can be (nautical) a tackle for hoisting cargo in or out.garnet
English
(wikipedia garnet)Etymology 1
From (etyl) granate, from (etyl) grenate, from .Noun
(en noun)- How many needles Betty Flanders had lost there! and her garnet brooch.
citation, passage=Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet , lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)}}
Derived terms
* demantoid garnet * garnet berry * garnet brown * garnetiferous * garnierite * gooseberry garnet * mandarin garnet * tsavorite garnet * YAGSee also
(mineral) * allochroite * almandine * andradite * carbuncle * cinnamon stone * Colorado ruby * demantoid * essonite * grossularite * hessonite * melanite * ouvarovite * pyrope * rhodolite * spessartine * topazolite * tsavorite * uvaroviteAdjective
(head)See also
*Etymology 2
Anagrams
* argent ----turquoise
English
(wikipedia turquoise)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)}}
citation, passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise .}}