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What is an almandine?

What is an almandine? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (mineralogy) A type of garnet having a deep red color, inclining to purple, with the chemical formula Fe3Al2(SiO4)3.
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In addition, rhodolite is a pale rose-red garnet made up of two parts pyrope and one part almandine.
The almandine produces characteristic bands in the green and the jargoon in the red, green and blue portion of the spectrum.
All the almandine garnets which I have examined, and nearly all the jargoons, show these characteristic absorption spectra.
The trout almandine – deep fried with roast almonds in a meunière sauce – is delicious, but oysters are also available.
It seems related to both almandine and pyrope, and shows the absorption-spectrum of almandine.
Associated with the quartz are crystals of almandine, kyanite, biotite, and magnesite.

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