Word Meanings - MALACHITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Native hydrous carbonate of copper, usually occurring in green mammillary masses with concentric fibrous structure. Note: Green malachite, or malachite proper, admits of a high polish, and is sometimes used for ornamental work. Blue malachite, or

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Native hydrous carbonate of copper, usually occurring in green mammillary masses with concentric fibrous structure. Note: Green malachite, or malachite proper, admits of a high polish, and is sometimes used for ornamental work. Blue malachite, or azurite, is a related species of a deep blue color. Malachite green. See Emerald green, under Green, n.

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  A native of Greenland.
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• GREENSAND
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• GREENOCKITE
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• GREENHOUSE
  A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.
• GREENWEED
  See GREENBROOM
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• SOMETIMES
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• ORNAMENTAL
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• GREENHORN
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• GREEN-STALL
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• COPPER-FACED
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• GREENISH
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• COPPERWORM
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• GREENBACKER
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• CONCENTRICITY
  The state of being concentric.
• COPPER-FASTENED
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• ELIMINATIVE
  Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
• NOMINATIVELY
  In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.
• EMANATIVE
  Issuing forth; effluent.
• DOMINATIVE
  Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
• REGNATIVE
  Ruling; governing.
• COORDINATIVE
  Expressing coördination. J. W. Gibbs.
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  The houseleek . Halliwell.
• IMPROPERLY
  In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
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• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• SHAGREEN; SHAGREENED
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