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JADEITE
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
A hard green mineral consisting of sodium aluminum silicate in monoclinic crystalline form; a source of jade; found principally in Burma
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Hypernyms ("jadeite" is a kind of...):
mineral (solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition)