Pyropes is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 160 anagrams from letters in pyropes (eopprsy).
1300-50; Middle English pirope Latin pyrōpus gold-bronze Greek pyrōpós literally, fire-eyed, equivalent to pyr- pyr- + ōp- (stem of ṓps) eye +
These had a composition between almandite and pyrope, that is, they had both magnesium and iron with aluminum and silica.
The species of garnet crystal known as pyrope, when cut in the shape of a tallow drop, is called a carbuncle.
At least, we might gather from this passage that the poet was aware of the distinction between ruby and carbuncle (pyrope garnet).
Almandite garnet, the "almandine" of the jeweler is less abundant than pyrope, when of gem quality.
If magnesium takes the place of calcium, then pyrope is formed.
The somewhat less dense, and less hard blood red garnets are properly called "pyrope garnets" (literally "fire" garnets).
Similarly the pyrope garnet of the diamond mines of South Africa is incorrectly called "Cape ruby."
The home of the pyrope, however, is and has been for many centuries, Bohemia.
The so-called "Cape rubies" of the diamond mines of South Africa are pyrope garnets and some large and fine ones are found.
It seems related to both almandine and pyrope, and shows the absorption-spectrum of almandine.