chrysoprase

From Ancient Greek χρυσός (khrusós, “gold”) and πράσινον (prásinon, “green”).

chrysoprase (plural chrysoprases)

1. (mineralogy) A variety of light-green translucent quartz.
   • 1846, [John Ruskin], chapter 10, in Modern Painters […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part III (Of Ideas of Beauty), section II (Of the Imaginative Faculty), § 7, page 79:

     […] or such pale green and uncertain as we see in sunset sky, and in the clefts of the glacier and the chrysoprase, […]

   • 1911, George Sterling, Duandon‎^[1]:

     With shaken soul of light and shuddering blaze / Of leaping emerald and cold chrysoprase

• David Barthelmy (1997–2025) “Chrysoprase”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “chrysoprase”, in Mindat.org‎^[2], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2025.

• IPA^(key): /kʁi.zɔ.pʁaz/

chrysoprase f (plural chrysoprases)

1. chrysoprase

• “chrysoprase”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.