Azure vs. Azurite

Azurenoun

(tincture) A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.

Azurenoun

The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour.

Azurenoun

(poetic) The unclouded sky; the blue vault above.

Azurenoun

(North America) Any of a number of North American species of butterflies in the lycaenid genus Celastrina.

Azurenoun

Lapis lazuli.

Azureadjective

sky blue; resembling the clear blue colour of the unclouded sky

Azureadjective

cloudless

Azureadjective

(tincture) In blazon, of the colour blue.

Azureverb

(transitive) To colour blue.

Azureadjective

Sky-blue; resembling the clear blue color of the unclouded sky; cerulean; also, cloudless.

Azurenoun

The lapis lazuli.

Azurenoun

The clear blue color of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this color.

Azurenoun

The blue vault above; the unclouded sky.

Azurenoun

A blue color, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.

Azureverb

To color blue.

Azurenoun

a light shade of blue

Azureverb

color azure;

Azureadjective

of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky;

Azuritenoun

(mineral) A blue vitreous mineral; a basic copper carbonate, with the chemical formula Cu2+3(CO3)2(OH)2.

Azuritenoun

Blue carbonate of copper; blue malachite.

Azurite

Azurite is a soft, deep-blue copper mineral produced by weathering of copper ore deposits. During the early 19th century, it was also known as chessylite, after the type locality at Chessy-les-Mines near Lyon, France.