fire opal

English

Noun

fire opal (countable and uncountable, plural fire opals)

2. (usually uncountable) Any transparent to translucent opal with a warm body colour of yellow, orange, or red.

   Synonyms: girasol, girasole, girosol

   Hypernyms: opal < mineral < material

   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 2:

     […] the body of each high seat was a single jewel of monstrous size: the left-hand seat a black opal, asparkle with steel-blue fire, the next a fire-opal, as it were a burning coal, the third seat an alexandrite, purple like wine by night but deep sea-green by day.

   2. (countable) Such opal serving as a gemstone.

      Synonyms: girasol, girasole, girosol

      Hypernyms: opal < gemstone, gem

Translations

reddish opal

• Finnish: tuliopaali (fi)

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