Definition of Dioptases

1. dioptase [n] - See also: dioptase

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dioptases

dionaea
dionaeas
diones
dionine
dionysia
dionysiac
dionysias
dioon
dioperad
dioperads
diophantine
diopside
diopsides
diopsidic
dioptase
dioptases (current term)
diopter
diopters
dioptometer
dioptometers
dioptra
dioptral
dioptre
dioptres
dioptric
dioptric aberration
dioptrical
dioptrics
dioptries
dioptry

Literary usage of Dioptases

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefakten-kunde by Karl Cäsar von Leonhard, Heinrich Georg Bronn (1839)
""V.. die Krystallform des dioptases, von Herrn Bergmeister CREDNER '. '. in Gotha. • -.'.-. Der Dioptas ans der kleinen ..."

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