Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Materials Facet
3. Materials (hierarchy name)
4. materials (substances)
5. [materials by composition]
6. inorganic material
7. rock (inorganic material)
8. igneous rock
9. [igneous rock by composition]
10. [igneous rock by composition: physical]

Narrower term/s

• pounamu [NP][+]
  • inanga (rock)
  • kahurangi (rock)
  • kawakawa (rock)
  • tangiwai (rock)

Anotations

Scope note:

Any of various rocks that are green in color, including altered igneous rocks colored green by feldspar, hornblende, augite, nephrite, or other minerals, or low-grade metamorphic rock containing actinolite, epidote, or albite. Greenstone has been used for carving and construction.