Noun: garnet
| Singular | garnet |
| Plural | garnets |
Sample Sentences
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On the back of one cover BRADSHAW, in beryls, was encrusted; on the back of the other, A.B.C. GUIDE, in amethysts, beryls, chrysoprases, and garnets. [1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson:]
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How many needles Betty Flanders had lost there! and her garnet brooch. [1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, page 127:]
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Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.) [2012 March 26, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2012, page 128:]
Nouns inflected like garnet
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English gernet, granate, from Old French grenate, from grenat (“pomegranate red”). Doublet of grenade. See: Middle English Nouns '
gernet'.
Verbs referencing "garnet"
Spanish Nouns
granate.