Pyrope is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 73 anagrams from letters in pyrope (eoppry).
1300-50; Middle English pirope Latin pyrōpus gold-bronze Greek pyrōpós literally, fire-eyed, equivalent to pyr- pyr- + ōp- (stem of ṓps) eye +
If magnesium takes the place of calcium, then pyrope is formed.
At least, we might gather from this passage that the poet was aware of the distinction between ruby and carbuncle (pyrope garnet).
The so-called "Cape rubies" of the diamond mines of South Africa are pyrope garnets and some large and fine ones are found.
The home of the pyrope, however, is and has been for many centuries, Bohemia.
It seems related to both almandine and pyrope, and shows the absorption-spectrum of almandine.
These had a composition between almandite and pyrope, that is, they had both magnesium and iron with aluminum and silica.
Similarly the pyrope garnet of the diamond mines of South Africa is incorrectly called "Cape ruby."
The species of garnet crystal known as pyrope, when cut in the shape of a tallow drop, is called a carbuncle.
Almandite garnet, the "almandine" of the jeweler is less abundant than pyrope, when of gem quality.
The somewhat less dense, and less hard blood red garnets are properly called "pyrope garnets" (literally "fire" garnets).