amethyst
Other forms: amethysts
An amethyst is a purple stone, a type of quartz that's used to make jewelry. Polished amethysts are used for rings, pins, earrings, and necklaces.
Amethysts sparkle with light — they are partly translucent and vary in color from a pale pinkish-purple to a deep violet. Amethysts were used to make ornaments and jewelry in ancient Egypt and are the birthstone for the month of February. The word amethyst comes from a Greek root, amethystos, which literally means "not intoxicating," from a-, "not," methyskein, "make drunk," based on the ancient belief that the stone could prevent drunkenness.
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a transparent purple variety of quartz; used as a gemstonetype of:quartza hard glossy mineral consisting of silicon dioxide in crystal form; present in most rocks (especially sandstone and granite); yellow sand is quartz with iron oxide impuritiestransparent gema gemstone having the property of transmitting light without serious diffusion
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of a moderate purple colorsynonyms:chromaticbeing, having, or characterized by hue
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