Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun
- a transparent, light-blue or greenish-blue variety of beryl, used as a gem.
- light blue-green or greenish blue.
noun
- a pale greenish-blue transparent variety of beryl used as a gemstone
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- a pale blue to greenish-blue colour
- (as adjective)an aquamarine dress
1590s, agmarine, “bluish-green type of beryl,” from French or Provençal, from Latin aqua marina “sea water,” from aqua “water” (see aqua-) + marina, fem. of marinus “of the sea” (see marine (adj.)). Apparently first used as a description of a bluish-green color by John Ruskin, 1846. Abbreviation aqua is attested from 1936.