📚 Amethyst, noun. 🔉 /ˈaməθɪst/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A precious stone consisting of a violet or purple variety of quartz. ❗️ Examples: 1. A delicate necklace of amethysts and pearls. 2. Amethyst earrings. 3. Quartz is colourless when pure but minute amounts of impurities or lattice imperfections give rise to varieties such as amethyst, cairngorm, rose quartz, and smoky quartz. 4. In the same case are several amethysts (the purple variety of quartz) of an amazingly rich violet color. 5. A fine-colored amethyst, the purple variety of quartz, is also mined here. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic