dendrachate

English

Etymology

From Latin dendrachates, from Ancient Greek δένδρον (déndron, “tree”) + ἀχάτης (akhátēs, “agate”).

Noun

dendrachate (plural dendrachates)

  1. (mineralogy) An arborescent or dendritic agate.
    • 1870, George William Traill, An Elementary Treatise on Quartz and Opal, page 34:
      This is translucent white chalcedony, with dark moss-like markings produced by the infiltration of iron or manganese. It is identical with the dendrachates of Pliny; […]
    • 1935, Natural History Magazine, volume 5, page 113:
      A dendrachate with two rows of red shrubs.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dendrachate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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