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Definition of Moss agate
1. Noun. An agate resembling moss with brown, black, or green markings.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moss Agate
Literary usage of Moss agate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Micrographic Dictionary: A Guide to the Examination and Investigation of by John William Griffith, Arthur Henfrey (1883)
"14 represents sections of a piece of moss- agate (Indian), showing the silicified
fibres of sponge aa, the gemmules 6, a separate fibre at c, and spicula at ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Consult Popular Science Review, New Series, Vol. I, p. 23. Moss-agate or ...
In the Chinese moss-agate they appear as thin matted filaments of a preen color ..."
3. The Mines of Colorado by Ovando James Hollister (1867)
"moss agate, or mocha stone, is usually a brownish agate, with dendritic delineations
of a brownish-black color and caused by an oxide of iron or manganese; ..."
4. Complete Mineral Catalog by Warren Mathews Foote (1909)
"4.oo 6800 Moss-agate, leek-green sea moss, polished. .75 681 ditto, with patches
of chalcedony outlined by carne- lian. i.25 6820 Moss-agate, Mocha-stone, ..."
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