Word Meanings - OLIVENITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An olive-green mineral, a hydrous arseniate of copper; olive ore.

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• GREENLANDER
  A native of Greenland.
• GREENLET
  l. One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love ; the warbling greenlet ; the yellow-throated greenlet and others. See Vireo. 2. Any species
• GREENSAND
  A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime. Note: Greensand is often called marl, because
• GREENFISH
  See POLLOCK
• GREENOCKITE
  Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.
• OLIVERIAN
  An adherent of Oliver Cromwell. Macaulay.
• GREENHOUSE
  A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.
• OLIVED
  Decorated or furnished with olive trees. T. Warton.
• GREENWEED
  See GREENBROOM
• OLIVEWOOD
  The wood of the olive. An Australian name given to the hard white wood of certain trees of the genus Elæodendron, and also to the trees themselves.
• MINERALIZATION
  The conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature. (more info) 1. The process of mineralizing, or forming a mineral by combination of a metal with another element; also, the process of converting into a mineral, as a bone or a plant.
• GREENHORN
  A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon. W. Irving.
• GREEN-STALL
  A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale.
• COPPER-FACED
  Faced or covered with copper; as, copper-faced type.
• GREENISH
  Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow. -- Green"ish*ness, n.
• COPPERWORM
  The teredo; -- so called because it injures the bottoms of vessels, where not protected by copper. The ringworm.
• GREENBACKER
  One of those who supported greenback or paper money, and opposed the resumption of specie payments.
• GREENGAGE
  A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after the queen of Francis I. See Gage.
• GREENROOM
  The retiring room of actors and actresses in a theater.
• COPPER-FASTENED
  Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship.
• AYEGREEN
  The houseleek . Halliwell.
• BRUNSWICK GREEN
  An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.
• BINARSENIATE
  A salt having two equivalents of arsenic acid to one of the base. Graham.
• SHAGREEN; SHAGREENED
  Covered with rough scales or points like those on shagreen. (more info) 1. Made or covered with the leather called shagreen. "A shagreen case of lancets." T. Hook.
• SHAGREEN
  To chagrin.