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bloodstone en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈblʌdˌstoʊn/ (General-American)
• (US) audio

Etymology

From blood + stone, from the fact that the red inclusions in the stone resemble blood.

Meanings

1. A green chalcedony that is sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite.
   • The magician wore a blood-stone ring […] 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 148:
   • These following bodies do not draw: smaragd, achates, corneolus, pearl, jaspis, chalcedonius, alabaster, porphyry, coral, marble, touchstone, haematites, or bloodstone […] 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
2. Hematite.

Forms

Synonyms

heliotrope

Translations (29)

uk геліотро́п (green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite) · ca heliotropi (green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite) · ko 혈석 (green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite) · cmn 血玉髓 (green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite) · es heliotropo (green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite) · ru гелиотро́п (green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite) · mk хелиотро́п (green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite) · sv heliotrop (green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite) · fr héliotrope (green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite) · cy gwaedfaen (green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite) · fa سنگ جهودان (green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite) · vi đá máu (green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite) · fa سنگ خون (green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite) · ga cloch fhola (green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite) · ja 血石 (green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite) · tl alakeka (green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite) · cmn 血滴石 (green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite) · pt heliotrópio (green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite) · fi heliotrooppi (green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite) · la heliotropium (green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite) · cmn 血石髓 (green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite) · fi verikivi (green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite) · ro heliotrop (green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite) · pl heliotrop (green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite) · ru крова́вик (green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite) · tl dugumbato (green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite) · cmn 血石 (green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite) · fr pierre de sang (green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite) · pt heliotropo (green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite)