aquamarine

Etymology

From Latin aqua (“water”) + marinus (“marine”), adjective form from mare (“sea”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌæ.kwə.məˈɹiːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn

Noun

aquamarine (countable and uncountable, plural aquamarines)

1. The bluish-green colour of the sea.

   aquamarine colour:  

2. A bluish-green variety of beryl.
   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 4, in Crime out of Mind‎:

     Before we could embark on the details of his mother's health we were joined by a fair, plump woman of indefinite age, who had once been—and at moments still was—very pretty. She wore a simple black silk dress, perhaps in deference to Tilly's death, though the note of mourning was jarred by flamboyant aquamarine ear-rings and too much rouge.

Adjective

aquamarine (not comparable)

1. Of a bluish-green colour.

Derived terms

• Madagascar aquamarine

See also

• (blues) blue; Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, cadet blue, Cambridge blue, cerulean, cobalt blue, Copenhagen blue, cornflower, cornflower blue, cyan, Dodger blue, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric-blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, lovat, mazarine, midnight blue, navy, Nile blue, Oxford blue, peacock blue, petrol blue, powder blue, Prussian blue, robin's-egg blue, royal blue, sapphire, saxe blue, slate blue, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre

Further reading

• “Aquamarine” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
• aquamarine mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016

Adjective

aquamarine

1. inflected form of aquamarin