lazuli
lazuli — noun
1. a dark blue stone with small shiny gold-coloured marks, valued as a semi-preciou
a dark blue stone with small shiny gold-coloured marks, valued as a semi-precious jewel and used in jewellery, carvings, and ground into a powder for use as a pigment in painting
Camila wore a small lazuli pendant around her neck to the wedding.
collocation: lazuli pendant / ring / necklace
The artist ground lazuli into a fine powder to make ultramarine paint for the portrait.
historical use: ground into pigment for painting
For her mother's birthday, Jabari bought a ring set with a piece of lazuli.
Nila keeps a polished lazuli stone on her desk, a gift from her older sister.
Tuan admired the lazuli in the ancient necklace at the museum jewellery display.
- lapis lazuli
the full, more formal name of the same stone; interchangeable in most contexts but preferred in scientific and technical writing
- ultramarine
the vivid blue pigment ground from lazuli, or its synthetic imitation; not the stone itself
文法句型
lazuli (uncountable - material)
a piece/slab/fragment of lazuli
a lazuli (countable - a specimen/stone)
用法筆記
Countable use ("a lazuli") is rare and usually refers to a specific carved piece or mineral specimen; the material itself is uncountable. Distinguish the shortened form lazuli from the full name lapis lazuli — they are interchangeable in most contexts, though lapis lazuli is more formal and technical.