Found 2 items, similar to aventurine.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: aventurine aventurine n : a translucent quartz spangled with bits of mica or other minerals [syn: sunstone]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Aventurine Aventurine \A*ven"tu*rine\, n. [F. aventurine: cf. It. avventurino.] 1. A kind of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass. [1913 Webster] 2. (Min.) A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica. [1913 Webster] Aventurine feldspar, a variety of oligoclase with internal firelike reflections due to the presence of minute crystals, probably of hematite; sunstone. [1913 Webster]