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chalcedonynoun	A form of fine-grained quartz that is nearly transparent or has a milky translucence; it fractures conchoidally.
onyxnoun	(mineralogy) A banded variety of chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of quartz.
marblenoun	(uncountable, petrology) A metamorphic rock of crystalline limestone.
shooternoun	Someone who shoots something; a gunner, archer, etc.
aggatnoun	Obsolete spelling of agate. [(countable, uncountable, mineralogy) A semitransparent, uncrystallized silicate mineral and semiprecious stone, presenting various tints in the same specimen, with colors delicately arranged and often curved in parallel alternating dark and light stripes or bands, or blended in clouds; various authorities call it a variety of chalcedony, a variety of quartz, or a combination of the two.]
argentinenoun	White metal coated with silver.
chalcedonyxnoun	(mineralogy) An agate formed of a white opaque chalcedony alternating with a greyish translucent chalcedony.
alabasternoun	A fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally.
aggienoun	(US, informal) An agricultural school, such as one of the state land-grant colleges.
calcedonynoun	Alternative form of chalcedony. [A form of fine-grained quartz that is nearly transparent or has a milky translucence; it fractures conchoidally.]
aquaprasenoun	(mineralogy) A bluish-green variety of chalcedony, coloured by chromium and nickel.
garnetnoun	(mineralogy) A hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives.
agalitenoun	A fibrous variety of talc.
agatewarenoun	(ceramics) Pottery decorated with a combination of contrastingly coloured clays, designed to resemble the layers of colour in an agate stone.
amygdaloidnoun	A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, especially agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava.
gemstonenoun	A gem, usually made of minerals.
eyestonenoun	A small, lenticular, calcareous body, especially an operculum of a small shell of the family Tubinidae, used to remove a foreign substance from the eye.
smaragditenoun	(mineralogy) A green foliated kind of amphibole, observed in eclogite and some varieties of gabbro.
antigoritenoun	(mineralogy) A brownish-green variety of serpentine.
asterismnoun	(astronomy) An unofficial constellation (small group of stars that forms a visible pattern).