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jasper

/ˈdʒæspə/ · noun

Meaning

  1. Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian.
  2. An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
  3. Jasperware pottery.
  4. A wasp.
  5. A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple.

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Sources

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