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A variety of spinel ruby, of a pale rose red, or inclining to orange. See Spinel.
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a.
Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.
n.
A mineral occurring in yellowish, and ruby-red hexagonal crystals. It consist of lead vanadate with a small proportion of lead chloride.
n.
A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum.
n.
A European gold wasp (Chrysis ignita) which has the under side of the abdomen bright red, and the other parts deep bluish green with a metallic luster. The larva is parasitic in the nests of other wasps and of bees.
n.
A ruby.
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Any one of numerous species of humming birds belonging to Trochilus, Calypte, Stellula, and allies, in which the male has on the throat a brilliant patch of red feathers having metallic reflections; esp., the common humming bird of the Eastern United States (Trochilus colubris).
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n.
Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.
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A variety of tourmaline varying in color from a pale rose to a deep ruby, and containing lithium.
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red sandalwood. See under Sandalwood.
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a.
Having the tail, or lower part of the body, bright red.
n.
A variety of ruby of a yellowish red color, from Brazil.
v. t.
To make red; to redden.
n.
See Agate, n., 2.
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of Ruby
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That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.
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A kind of glass of a red or ruby color, made in Bohemia.
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The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
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