tourmaline

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A complex black or dark-coloured borosilicate mineral, compounded with various chemical elements and considered a semi-precious stone. countable,uncountable
    — The floor of the chamber was tesselated, of marble and green tourmaline, and on every square of tourmaline was carven the image of a fish: as the dolphin, the conger, the cat-fish, the salmon, the tunny, the squid, and other wonders of the deep.
  2. A transparent gemstone cut from it. countable,uncountable

词形变化

tourmalines plural turmaline alternative

词源

From French tourmaline, ultimately from Sinhalese තෝරමල්ලී (tōramallī, “carnelian”)
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