ALL meanings of jasper
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J j - noun jasper a city in NW Alabama. 1
- noun jasper a resort town in SW Alberta, in SW Canada, on the Athabasca River: headquarters for Jasper National Park. 1
- noun jasper a male given name, form of Caspar. 1
- noun jasper An opaque reddish -brown variety of chalcedony. 1
- noun jasper type of quartz stone 1
- noun jasper (Obsolete (No longer in use)) Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian. 0
- noun jasper (mineralogy) An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface. 0
- noun jasper Jasperware pottery. 0
- noun jasper (Colloquial) (Britain, West Country, Somerset) A wasp. 0
- noun jasper (Slang) (US) A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple. 0
- noun jasper an opaque impure microcrystalline form of quartz, red, yellow, brown, or dark green in colour, used as a gemstone and for ornamental decoration 0
- noun jasper a dense hard stoneware, invented in 1775 by Wedgwood, capable of being stained throughout its substance with metallic oxides and used as background for applied classical decoration 0
- noun jasper a masculine name: equiv. Fr. Gaspard, Ger. Kasper, Sp. Gaspar 0
- noun jasper a type of chert quartz that is usually reddish due to the presence of hematite 0
- noun jasper a precious stone, probably an opaque green quartz 0
- noun jasper a kind of porcelain developed by Wedgwood, having a dull surface in green, blue, etc., with raised designs, usually in white 0