cairngorm

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A precious stone of smoky yellow-brown or gray-brown color, used in Scottish jewellery. countable,uncountable
    — And then he led away the talk to their home in Devonshire, and the red, bright earth, and the deep-green combes, and the peat streams like cairngorm pebbles, and the wild moor with its high, cloudy tors for a giant background to the picture[…].

词形变化

cairngorms plural

词源

So called because found among the Cairngorms, a mountainous region in Scotland.
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