bloodstone

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Noun

bloodstone (plural bloodstones)

1. A green chalcedony that has been sprinkled with red spots (which resemble blood, hence the name).
   • 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries

     These following bodies do not draw: smaragd, achates, corneolus, pearl, jaspis, chalcedonius, alabaster, porphyry, coral, marble, touchstone, haematites, or bloodstone […]

2. Hematite.

Translations

• French: pierre de sang, héliotrope
• Portuguese: heliotropo, heliotrópio
• Russian: гелиотро́п
• Spanish: heliotropo

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