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beryl

/ˈbɛɹ.əl/ adjective C2
  1. Of a dull bluish green colour.
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“Halloa, Beryl!” said he, and it seemed to me that the tone of his greeting was not altogether a cordial one.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 86 · C1
“And yet we manage to make ourselves fairly happy, do we not, Beryl?”
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 87 · C1
He married Beryl Garcia, one of the beauties of Costa Rica, and, having purloined a considerable sum of public money, he changed his name to Vandeleur and fled to England, where he established a school in the east of Yorkshire.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 204 · C1

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