cinnamon stone

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   noun

   an orange to reddish-brown gemstone variety of grossular garnet, also called hessonite

   The jeweler set a warm orange cinnamon stone in the antique ring.

A descriptive compound of cinnamon and stone, named for the gem's warm orange-brown to reddish color and recorded around the beginning of the nineteenth century. Its scientific synonym hessonite comes through French from Greek hesson, 'lesser,' referring to properties such as lower hardness and density than minerals with which it was compared.

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