A generic name for green precious or semi-precious stones—turquoise, jadeite, nephrite, emerald, etc.

In Kingsborough, Antiquities of Mexico, vol. vi.

On this identification see also Torquemada, bk. vi, c. xix.

Codex Telleriano-Remensis.

Seler, Codex Vaticanus B, p. 132.