Definitions for jadeites

jadeites jade·ite

Spelling: [jey-dahyt]
IPA: /ˈdʒeɪ daɪt/

Jadeites is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 214 anagrams from letters in jadeites (adeeijst).

Definitions for jadeites

noun

  1. a mineral, essentially sodium aluminum silicate, NaAlSi 2 O 6 , usually fibrous, occurring in compact masses, whitish to dark green: a form of jade.

Origin of jadeites

First recorded in 1860-65; jade1 + -ite1

Examples for jadeites

jadeite is a sodium aluminum silicate and nephrite, a calcium magnesium silicate.

The most remarkable of all are a large number of model celts made of jadeite and other hard stones.

She smiled: "jadeite, of course; and lapis and crystals—the usual."

The principal jades belong, however, to one or the other of two species, jadeite and nephrite.

jadeite occurs in association with the nephrite of Turkestan, and possibly in some other Asiatic localities.

The name jadeolite has been given by Kunz to a green chromiferous syenite from the jadeite mines of Burma.

Jade of the jadeite variety, which is harder than nephrite and more highly valued, is rare.

Ornaments in the form of human and animal faces and heads nicely cut from jadeite and greenstone are not uncommon.

Beside the commoner minerals five to eight per cent of implements made of nephritoids (nephrite, jadeite, and chloromelanite).

Word Value for jadeites
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15

Words with friends

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