alamandine
(æləˈmændɪn)
[ad. med.L. alamandina, altered f. L. alabandina (gemma), f. Alabanda a city of Caria.]
A kind of garnet. Cf. almandine n.
| 1895 J. W. Anderson Prospector's Handbk. (ed. 6) 96 Garnet (including carbuncle, alamandine, pyrope, &c.). 1921 W. W. Watts in Trans. Scott. Ecclesiol. Soc. 152 A ring with an alamandine (a garnet-coloured stone). |