Word Meanings - BROCHANTITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A basic sulphate of copper, occurring in emerald-green crystals.

• Green-eyed
  Having green eyes.
• Greenockite
  Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.
• BASICSLAG
  A by-product from the manufacture of steel by the basic process, used as a fertilizer. It is rich in lime and contains 14 to 20 per cent of phosphoric acid. Called also Thomas slag, phosphatic slag, and odorless phosphate.
• Copperplate
  A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved.
• Greenfinch
  A European finch (Ligurinus chloris); -- called also green bird, green linnet, green grosbeak, green olf, greeny, and peasweep.
• Greenroom
  The retiring room of actors and actresses in a theater.
• BASICSTEEL
  Steel produced by the basic process.
• Coppersmith
  One whose occupation is to manufacture copper utensils; a worker in copper.
• Copper works
  A place where copper is wrought or manufactured.
• Greenfish
  See Bluefish, and Pollock.
• Greensand
  A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime.
• COPPERBOTTOMED
  Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship.
• Copperworm
  The teredo; -- so called because it injures the bottoms of vessels, where not protected by copper.
• Greengage
  A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after the queen of Francis I. See Gage.
• Greenshank
  A European sandpiper or snipe (Totanus canescens); -- called also greater plover.
• COPPERFACED
  Faced or covered with copper; as, copper-faced type.
• Basicerite
  The second joint of the antennae of crustaceans.
• Greengill
  An oyster which has the gills tinged with a green pigment, said to be due to an abnormal condition of the blood.

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