Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
asteriated sapphire (seesapphire ) and asteria. - noun A cut and polished piece of the trunk of a petrified tree-fern. See
Psaronius .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) Asteriated sapphire.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy An
asteriated sapphire .
Etymologies
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star + stone
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Examples
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However, it must be remembered that other species than corundum furnish starstones (amethyst and other varieties of quartz, for example), so that it does not follow that any starstone is a corundum gem.
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public Frank Bertram Wade
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He settled the starstone-gemmed coronet on the newest Imperial noble's head.
Hostage A Terran Empire story Ann Wilson
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Problems/Solutions, Planet ruling, your animal, color of choice, starstone, famous persons with your sign etc. Numerology
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