porphyry

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

[U] a type of hard red stone that contains red and white CRYSTALS, and that can be polished and made into ornaments

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

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porphyryEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary porphyryEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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