JASPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jasper mean? 

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

1. an opaque form of quartz; red or yellow or brown or dark green in color; used for ornamentation or as a gemstone

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• JASPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An opaque form of quartz; red or yellow or brown or dark green in color; used for ornamentation or as a gemstone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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

opaque gem (a gemstone that is opaque)

 Context examples 

We made great havoc in Touraine, until we came into Romorantin, where I chanced upon a gold chain and two bracelets of jasper, which were stolen from me the same day by a black-eyed wench from the Ardennes.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)