GARNET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does garnet mean? 

• GARNET (noun)
  The noun GARNET has 1 sense:

1. any of a group of hard glassy minerals (silicates of various metals) used as gemstones and as an abrasive

  Familiarity information: GARNET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GARNET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of a group of hard glassy minerals (silicates of various metals) used as gemstones and as an abrasive

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("garnet" is a kind of...):

mineral (solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition)

transparent gem (a gemstone having the property of transmitting light without serious diffusion)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "garnet"):

almandine; almandite (a deep red garnet consisting of iron aluminum silicate)

andradite (a garnet consisting of calcium iron silicate and having any color ranging from yellow and green to brown and black; used as gemstone)

carbuncle (deep-red cabochon garnet cut without facets)

cinnamon stone; essonite; hessonite (a garnet ranging in color from yellow to brown)

pyrope (a deep red garnet used as a gemstone)

rhodolite (a red or pink variety of garnet used as a gemstone)

 Context examples 

There was the garnet set which Aunt March wore when she came out, the pearls her father gave her on her wedding day, her lover's diamonds, the jet mourning rings and pins, the queer lockets, with portraits of dead friends and weeping willows made of hair inside, the baby bracelets her one little daughter had worn, Uncle March's big watch, with the red seal so many childish hands had played with, and in a box all by itself lay Aunt March's wedding ring, too small now for her fat finger, but put carefully away like the most precious jewel of them all.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)