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What is another word for Lapis?

Pronunciation: [lˈapiz] (IPA)

Lapis is a beautiful deep blue stone that has been used for centuries in jewelry and decorative arts. Synonyms for lapis include azurite, lazurite, and ultramarine. Azurite is commonly found alongside lapis in copper mines and has a similar deep blue color, but is more fragile. Lazurite is another mineral that occurs in lapis lazuli, the rock from which lapis is extracted. Ultramarine is a blue pigment made from grinding lapis into a fine powder, and is commonly used in painting and dyeing fabrics. These synonyms for lapis all encapsulate the beauty and richness of this prized gemstone.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

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The piece of hedge near me has pink flowers, and behind it you see a little Lapis-lazuli sky.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
Under this great oak in the stillness is a place to dream-in summer, looking upward into the vast expanse of green boughs, is an intricate architecture, an inimitable roof, whose lattice-windows are set with translucent Lapis lazuli, for the deep blue of the sky seems to come down and rest upon it.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies
All the different kinds of lava found in volcanoes are to be met with here, such as agate, pumice stone, and both black and green Lapis obsidian.
"A Girl's Ride in Iceland"
Ethel Brilliana Alec-Tweedie

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