Greenstone Definition

grēnstōn
noun
Any of various altered basic igneous rocks having a dark-green color.
Webster's New World

(archaeology) Any of several green-hued minerals used for making various artefacts in early Mesoamerican cultures, e.g. greenschist, chlorastrolite, serpentine, omphacite, or chrysoprase.

Wiktionary

(New Zealand) The green-hued minerals of New Zealand used by Māori to make tools, ornaments and weapons (any of three varieties of nephrite jade or one variety of bowenite)

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pronoun

A surname​.

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Other Word Forms of Greenstone

Noun

Singular:
greenstone
Plural:
greenstones

Origin of Greenstone

Greenstone Sentence Examples

  • The rocks of its lower half are mainly granite and gneiss; its upper half is composed of porphyritic greenstone, and a variety of minerals occur.

  • The plain, sandy in its northern part, is in the south a deep bed of argillaceous marl, scattered over with great granite boulders and fragments of greenstone.

  • In every other part the surface is hilly or mammilated, the harder rocks, such as granite or greenstone, rising as rounded knobs, or in the case of schists forming narrow ridges, while the softer parts form valleys generally floored with lakes.

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