Pyrope Definition

pīrōp
noun
A variety of deep-red to black garnet, Mg3Al2(SiO4)3, often used as a gem; magnesium aluminum silicate.
Webster's New World

(mineralogy) A variety of garnet, of a poppy or blood-red color, frequently with a tinge of orange. It is used as a gem. See the Note under garnet.

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Other Word Forms of Pyrope

Noun

Singular:
pyrope
Plural:
pyropes

Origin of Pyrope

  • Middle English pirope from Old French from Latin pyrōpum gold-bronze alloy from Greek purōpos fiery, kind of red bronze puro- pyro- ōps ōp- eye, face okw- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin pyropus (“a kind of red bronze"), from Ancient Greek πῦρ (pyr, “fire") + ὤψ (ōps, “eye"); compare French pyrope.

    From Wiktionary

Pyrope Sentence Examples

  • In another eclogite boulder, diamond was found partly embedded in pyrope.

  • Mention should be made of the pyrope garnet found at Elie Ness.

  • Specimens of pyrope with attached or embedded diamond had previously been found in the blue ground of the De Beers mines.

  • Other minerals found in various places of Bohemia are copper, sulphur, cobalt, alum, nickel, arsenic and various sorts of precious stone, like the Bohemian garnet (pyrope), and building stone.

  • The other minerals found in the concentrates are pebbles and fragments of pyrope, zircon, cyanite, chrome-diopside, enstatite, a green pyroxene, mica, ilmenite, magnetite, chromite, hornblende, olivine, barytes, calcite and pyrites.

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Words Starting With

PPYPYR

Words Ending With

EPEOPE

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