Crossword-Solution: NEPHRITE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Nephrite | n. | A hard compact mineral, of a dark green color, formerly worn as a remedy for diseases of the kidneys, whence its name; kidney stone; a kind of jade. See Jade. |
Anagrams
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| NEPHRITE | anagram | THREEPIN, TREPHINE |
We have 5 clues for the answer “NEPHRITE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Variety of jade | 1 answer |
| kidney stone | 2 answers |
| AMERICAN jade | 3 answers |
| greenstone | 3 answers |
| jade | 44 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with NEPHRITE (5)
For instance, there was been found scattered over Europe axes made of varieties of stone known as nephrite and jade.
Several of them are of nephrite, chloromelanite, and jade; and their number, as compared with those in minerals native to Switzerland, varies from five to eight per cent.
The Museum of Vannes, where most of the valuable objects found in the excavations are preserved, possesses quartzite, fibrolite, diorite, and even nephrite and jadeite hatchets, some of which materials are not native to Europe; as well as amber beads and a necklace of calaïte, that precious stone described by Pliny, and which long remained unknown after his time.
Jadeite and nephrite8 are met with in the Lake Dwellings of Switzerland and Bavaria, as in the caves of Liguria and Sardinia; chloromelanite9 in France, and obsidian10 in Lorraine, in the island of Pianosa and in the Cyclades.
Sadowski: “Le Commerce de l’Ambre chez les Anciens.” 8 Nephrite is found in Turkestan, in Siberia, and in New Zealand.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2015).