turquoise

Meanings

Plural: turquoises

Noun

• a blue to grey green mineral consisting of copper aluminum phosphate
  • "blue turquoise is valued as a gemstone"
• a shade of blue tinged with green
• A sky-blue, greenish-blue, or greenish-gray semi-precious gemstone.
• A pale greenish-blue colour, like that of the gemstone.

Adj

• Made of turquoise (the gemstone).
• Having a pale greenish-blue colour.

Synonyms

aqua, aquamarine, blue-green, cobalt blue, green-blue, greenish blue, peacock blue, turquoise blue

Related Words

Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, augite, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, cadet blue, Cambridge blue, cerulean, cobalt blue, Copenhagen blue, cornflower, cornflower blue, cyan, dark blue, Dodger blue, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, light blue, lovat, mazarine, midnight blue, navy, Nile blue, Oxford blue, peacock blue, petrol blue, powder blue, Prussian blue, robin's-egg blue, royal blue, sapphire, saxe blue, sky blue, slate blue, teal, turquoised, turquoiselike, turquoisey, turquoisish, turquoisy, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre