Definition of "chrysoprase"
(mineralogy) A variety of light-green translucent quartz.
Quotations
[…] or such pale green and uncertain as we see in sunset sky, and in the clefts of the glacier and the chrysoprase, […]
1846, John Ruskin, chapter 10, in Modern Painters, volume II (part III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], § 7, page 79