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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: balas ruby
balas ruby
n : a pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel [syn:
balas]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Balas ruby
Balas ruby
\Bal"as ru`by\ [OE. bales, balais, F. balais, LL.
balascus, fr. Ar. balakhsh, so called from Badakhshan,
Balashan, or Balaxiam, a place in the neighborhood of
Samarkand, where this ruby is found.] (Min.)
A variety of spinel ruby, of a pale rose red, or inclining to
orange. See
Spinel.
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