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Definition: Moss Agate |
Moss AgateNoun1. An agate with brown, black, or green moss-like markings. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | Variety of quartz. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A general term for any translucent chalcedony containing inclusions of any color arranged in dendritic patterns resembling trees, ferns, leaves, moss, and similar vegetation; specif. an agate containing brown, black, or green mosslike markings due to visible inclusions of oxides of manganese and iron. See also:agate; Mocha stone; tree agate.Syn:landscape agate; medfordite. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Moss Agate |
| Specialty definitions using "moss agate": dendritic markings ♦ flour agate ♦ Montana agate ♦ tree agate. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Round-up at Moss Agate of T. 999 A.S. & G., A.U.T. and others. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
moss agate | 26 |
moss agate jewelry | 3 |
montana moss agate | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "moss agate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | mosagat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | mosagaat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | agate mousse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Moosachat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βρυοαχάτης. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | agata muscata. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ossmay agateay ágata moscada. (various references) agata musgosa. (various references) yosun renkli akik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-m-o-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: massage. | |
-3 letters: agates, gamest, gemots, magots, megass, omegas, sagest, samosa, somata, stages, steams, stomas. | |
-4 letters: agate, agmas, amass, asset, atmas, atoms, easts, gamas, games, gases, gasts, gates, gemot, gesso, gests, getas, goats, mages, magot, massa, masse, masts, mates, meats, mesas, moats, moste, mosts, motes, oases, oasts, ogams, omasa, omega, sagas, sages, sagos, satem. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-m-o-s-s-t" | |
+3 letters: ergastoplasm, megaloblasts, scapegoatism. | |
+4 letters: ergastoplasms, galactosemias, gynecomastias, magnetopauses, scapegoatisms. | |
+5 letters: coastguardsmen, dogmaticalness, ergastoplasmic, galactosamines. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6F 73 73 41 67 61 74 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101111 01110011 01110011 00100000 01000001 01100111 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o s s   A g a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 006F 0073 0073 0041 0067 0061 0074 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4781858523573678671 |
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