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. pounamu

Anotations

Scope note:

Maori pounamu stone that is paler than other varieties, often of a pearly-white or gray-green nephrite, ranging from translucent to opaque. It can change color over time, developing a light-olive tint as it ages and oxidizes.