AGATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does agate mean? 

• AGATE (noun)
  The noun AGATE has 1 sense:

1. an impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony; used as a gemstone and for making mortars and pestles

  Familiarity information: AGATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony; used as a gemstone and for making mortars and pestles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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

calcedony; chalcedony (a milky or greyish translucent to transparent quartz)

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

moss agate (an agate resembling moss with brown, black, or green markings)

 Context examples 

I'm fear'd you have some ill plans agate, that bring you about folk's houses at this time o' night.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)