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    agate

    Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
    Related topics: Jewellery
    ag·ate /ˈæɡət/ noun [countable, uncountable]  agate.jpg DCJa hard stone with bands of different colours, used in jewellery 玛瑙
    Examples from the Corpus
    agate• Most of the seals were nevertheless made of bone, ivory, steatite, banded agate, or orange carnelian.• Sometimes, they were moss green, tantalising as moss agate.• Beneath her flat furry belly the big shallow stones had the marble veining of agate.    Origin agate (1500-1600) French Latin achates, from Greek
    ag·ate nounChineseSyllable
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    agate
    ag‧ate /ˈæɡət, ˈæɡɪt/ noun [uncountable and countable]
     Date: 1500-1600
     Language: French
     Origin: Latin achates, from Greek

    a hard stone with bands of different colours, used in jewellery


    agateBrE /ˈæɡət/ 🔊NAmE /ˈæɡət/ 🔊 noun [uncountable, countable] a hard stone with bands or areas of colour, used in jewellery 玛瑙