amazonite
/ˈæm.ə.zəˌnaɪt/noun
amazonite is a noun meaning “A gem variety of microcline feldspar, varying from bright verdigris green to a bluish green” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-M-A-Z-O-N-I-T-E, and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of amazonite is amazonites.
What does amazonite mean?
noun
- 1
A gem variety of microcline feldspar, varying from bright verdigris green to a bluish green.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce amazonite?
- /ˈæm.ə.zəˌnaɪt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of amazonite
- amazonites plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is amazonite?
Amazonite appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 182,517th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Amazonite in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense gem:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does amazonite come from?
From Amazon + -ite; the gem does not actually come from the Amazon, but it was confused with an unrelated green stone that does.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).