Other forms: garnets
A garnet is a deep red stone used in jewellery and as an abrasive. A garnet brooch, dark garnet, garnet paper.
Most of what is mined goes into sandpaper and waterjet cutting rather than into rings, because it is hard and it fractures into sharp edges. The name comes from the pomegranate, whose seeds it resembles, and grenade is the same word.
1noungarnetA deep red stone used in jewellery and as an abrasive.
“The antique necklace was set with small garnets the colour of red wine.”
garnet is a gemstone.
Old French grenat means pomegranate red, from Latin granatum, a pomegranate. Grenade is a doublet.
Proto-Indo-European
*ǵerh₂-
Old French
grenate
Middle English
gernet
English, today
garnet
Built from
From Middle English gernet, granate, from Old French grenate, from grenat (“pomegranate red”). a doublet of grenade.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA