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SPINEL

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A hard glassy mineral consisting of an oxide of magnesium and aluminum; occurs in various colors that are used as gemstones

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("spinel" is a kind of...):

mineral (solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition)

Meronyms (substance of "spinel"):

atomic number 12; magnesium; Mg (a light silver-white ductile bivalent metallic element; in pure form it burns with brilliant white flame; occurs naturally only in combination (as in magnesite and dolomite and carnallite and spinel and olivine))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spinel"):

ruby spinel; spinel ruby (a spinel used as a gemstone (usually dark red))

Ceylonite; pleonaste (a dark-colored spinel containing iron)

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