aquamarine

/ɑkwəməˈrin/

/ɒkwəməˈrin/

Other forms: aquamarines

Aquamarine is a blue-green color that can be described as a light teal. It's also the name of a gemstone, one of the birth stones for people were born in March.

The aquamarine mineral, which looks like a pale green-blue crystal, got its name in the 16th century from the Latin aqua marina, or "sea water." It wasn't until the 1840s that aquamarine was used to describe the color itself. If you love the shade that evokes ocean water, somewhere between green and blue, you can paint your bedroom walls aquamarine, knit a sweater in aquamarine, or buy yourself some aquamarine jewelry.

Definitions of aquamarine

1. noun

   a shade of blue tinged with green
   synonyms: aqua, cobalt blue, greenish blue, peacock blue, turquoise

   type of:

   blue, blueness

   blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
2. adjective

   having a blue-green color
3. noun

   a transparent, light blue or bluish-green variety of the mineral beryl, used as a gemstone
   type of:

   beryl

   the chief source of beryllium; colored transparent varieties are valued as gems

   transparent gem

   a gemstone having the property of transmitting light without serious diffusion