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What is the noun for agates?

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agate
  1. (countable, uncountable, mineralogy) A semi-pellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen, with colors delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
  2. (uncountable, US printing, dated) The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5½-point.
  3. (countable, obsolete) A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.
  4. (countable) A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.;—so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.
  5. A marble made from agate.
  6. Synonyms:
agateware
  1. Pottery decorated with a combination of contrastingly coloured clays, supposed to resemble the layers of colour in an agate stone.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Weimer dumped ham and onions into an agateware basin, and set it on the table.”
      Agateware are simulations of natural agate stones and these coloured ceramics create an optical illusion.”
      “The Agateware Bowls, 2011, of the exhibition have a looser, slightly more random feel to them and are the beginnings of a new direction for Svendsen.”
agatization
agatizations
  1. plural of agatization
agatewares
  1. plural of agateware
agates
  1. plural of agate
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “These include aquamarine, chrome diopside, diamond, jade, labradorite, forsterite, opal, pyrope, variscite, and many unique agates and jaspers.”
      “The whole was embroidered with hundreds of pearls laced with two agates, twelve chrysolites, twelve garnets, a gold-mounted sapphire and a large pendant pearl.”
      “In the same limestone there are enormous beds of chert, agates, and carnelians.”
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