0 (of) a type of hard stone, usually green in colour/color -- jed
(also adjective) jade ornaments.
a piece of jade
His speech scroll appears ornamented with jade beads, perhaps indicating song or oratory.
Finally, the tapered stela profile resembles upturned jade celts such as those in the cruciform cache.
Because of the difficulty, labor-intensiveness, and expense involved, making replicas from jade or other greenstone was not a viable option.
This shattering is par ticularly intense when hot jade is thrown into cold water.
This consisted of two bowls placed lip to lip containing 1 jade bead and approximately 100 mollusks.
One of the young adults was closely associated with a layer of ground hematite and two jade beads.
Included in the deposit was an anthropomorphic, tubular jade bead, 7.2 cm long.
The upper insert provides a detail of jades under the central jar, and the lower insert is a north-south profile drawing.
