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Definition of Chrysoberyls
1. chrysoberyl [n] - See also: chrysoberyl
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chrysoberyls
Literary usage of Chrysoberyls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Book of Precious Stones: The Identification of Gems and Gem Minerals, and by Julius Wodiska (1918)
"The green, however, is seldom pleasing. 7. Chrysoberyl as usually seen is of a
yellowish green. The fine gem chrysoberyls known as ..."
2. A Hand-book of Precious Stones by Meyer Daniel Rothschild (1889)
"chrysoberyls are also found in Russia, Germany, America, Borneo, Pegu, and Moravia.
... and topazes are sometimes passed off for chrysoberyls. ..."
3. The Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald (1908)
"The lofty ceiling was all a golden vine, whose great clusters of carbuncles,
rubies, and chrysoberyls, hung down like the bosses of groined arches, ..."
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