six-rayed

Trapiche Emerald - Emerald with black impurities in the form of a six-rayed star

EMRALD FACTS 2009

Their "definiteness of form does not appear to be accompanied by any corresponding differentiation of function between different parts; and, so far as I can see, the beautiful regularity and symmetry of their radiated forms are altogether due to unknown laws of symmetry of growth, just like the equally beautiful and somewhat similar forms of the compound six-rayed, star-shaped crystals of snow."

On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

Thus, in September, in one instance, the fall commenced with fluffy balls and then passed to tapioca snow, sago snow, six-rayed stars and spicules.

The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

The freshly fallen snow originally consisted of delicate microscopically fine ice spicules, united and forming delicate six-rayed, feathery stars of extreme beauty.

Ice and Glaciers 1909

But that six-rayed yellow sun, the size of a large dinner plate, with its group of lesser six-rayed orbs as large as saucers, did not startle Patience as much as the rug beside the Squire's bed.

The Pot of Gold And Other Stories Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891

A six-rayed star, moreover, is typical of the construction of all our lake ice.

Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky Various 1880

The observation is rare, if not new, but I have seen in water slowly freezing six-rayed ice-stars formed, and floating free on the surface.

Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky Various 1880

Kircherianum at Rome are bronze six-rayed wheels, the spokes zigzagged like lightnings, found at Forli, others at Modena.

In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc 1879

When I knelt down with my face close to the ice, through which the sunbeams were pouring, I was delighted to discover myriads of Tyndall's six-rayed water flowers, magnificently colored.

Steep Trails John Muir 1876

The prison was a six-rayed building with a chapel in the centre.

Westminster The Fascination of London A. Murray Smith 1868