Usually means: Metamorphic rock, often contains jade.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. greenstone: Merriam-Webster
  2. greenstone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. greenstone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. greenstone: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Greenstone, greenstone: Wordnik
  6. Greenstone, greenstone: Wiktionary
  7. greenstone: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. greenstone: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. greenstone: Dictionary.com
  10. Greenstone (archaeology), Greenstone (disambiguation), Greenstone (software), Greenstone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Greenstone: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. greenstone: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Greenstone: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. greenstone: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. greenstone: FreeDictionary.org
  16. greenstone: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. greenstone: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Greenstone (disambiguation), greenstone: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Greenstone)

noun:  (archaeology) any of several green-hued minerals used for making various artefacts in early Mesoamerican cultures, e.g. greenschist, chlorastrolite, serpentine, omphacite, or chrysoprase
noun:  (New Zealand) pounamu, the green-hued minerals of New Zealand used by Māori to make tools, ornaments and weapons (any of three varieties of nephrite jade or one variety of bowenite)
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A municipality in Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada.

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