aventurine

Alternative forms

• avanturine, aventurin

Etymology

French. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass.

Noun

aventurine (countable and uncountable, plural aventurines)

1. A kind of glass containing gold-colored spangles.
2. (mineralogy) A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica.

See also

• sunstone

Anagrams

• uninervate

Etymology

From aventure +‎ -ine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.vɑ̃.ty.ʁin/

Noun

aventurine f (plural aventurines)

1. aventurine

Further reading

• “aventurine” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).