Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A variety of deep-green chalcedony flecked with red jasper.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A variety of hematite, having a finely fibrous structure and a reniform surface.
- noun A variety of quartz having a greenish base, with small spots of red jasper, looking like drops of blood, scattered through it. This kind of bloodstone is also called
heliotrope .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; -- called also
heliotrope . - noun Hematite, an ore of iron yielding a blood red powder or “streak.”
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A green
chalcedony that has been sprinkled with red spots (which resembleblood , hence the name).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun green chalcedony with red spots that resemble blood
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Examples
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"It is called a bloodstone," T’Shael said on yet another day.
Dwellers in the Crucible Margaret Wander Bonanno 1990
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In the booty captured in a savage raid, Kane discovers a ring, a bloodstone, which is key to the power that lies buried, inactive but not dea, within the forest.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Bloodstone - Karl Edward Wagner Blue Tyson 2009
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There was an unfacetted crimson gem (he vaguely remembered having heard a similar gem called a bloodstone) in the grip, just behind one of the smooth, tapering arms of the guard.
Nightside The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1993
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Courtesy of S.J. Phillips Ltd Rococo gold-mounted bloodstone teapot, circa 1820, probably Germany.
The Art World's Yearly Pilgrimage Margaret Studer 2011
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The false cenotaph in the public upper chamber was in white marble, the color of freshly drawn milk, inlaid profusely with stylized flowers in tiers—a lapis lazuli blue, a jasper red, a bloodstone black, an agate and sard brown, a carnelian orange, a chlorite and jade green, and a yellow limestone.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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In the end she had opted for muted colors—sard for brown, yellow limestone the brightest of her choices, a dull green jasper, and the sharp black-olive of bloodstone.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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But I was tired and couldn't be sure I actually recalled stampeding giraffes, falling heliotropes, bloodstone storms, an old child with no eyes, wrapped in waves; I couldn't; and you had dropped like a minnow of a brittle star into my flat trap of a lap, my darling sour ancient fish.
Minnows 2010
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I added the bloodstone to the items I was packing, then retrieved the scrying crystal and packed it, too, shoebox and all.
Fatal Circle Linda Robertson 2010
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The false cenotaph in the public upper chamber was in white marble, the color of freshly drawn milk, inlaid profusely with stylized flowers in tiers—a lapis lazuli blue, a jasper red, a bloodstone black, an agate and sard brown, a carnelian orange, a chlorite and jade green, and a yellow limestone.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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In the end she had opted for muted colors—sard for brown, yellow limestone the brightest of her choices, a dull green jasper, and the sharp black-olive of bloodstone.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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