aquamarine
/ˌæk.wə.məˈɹiːn/
aquamarine means of a bluish-green colour. It carries an Arena rating of 1858, earned across 47 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, aquamarine ranks #79 of 17,120 for Most Beautiful Words, #176 of 40,272 for Qualifying, #910 of 17,115 for Most Vivid Words, #1,307 of 17,116 for Words That Escaped Their Books.
aquamarine is pronounced /ˌæk.wə.məˈɹiːn/.
Why “aquamarine” is a great word
A transparent bluish-green variety of beryl, or the color resembling the light-filled shallows of the sea. From the Latin aqua ("water") and marina, feminine of marinus ("of the sea"), from mare ("sea"). Unlike "turquoise," which names a greener, opaque mineral, or "cerulean," which evokes a pure sky-blue, aquamarine is the domain of clear, watery depths. It is the glint of a polished stone held to a window, the cool, luminous cast of morning light on a Caribbean bay, and the deceptive, tranquil hue of a wave just before it crests—the color of serenity with a core of immense, held pressure, as if the ocean had been distilled into something you could hold in your palm.
adj
- Of a bluish-green colour.
noun
- The bluish-green colour of the sea.
- A transparent bluish-green, sometimes yellow-green, variety of beryl.
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