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Answer for the clue "Reddish gem ", 9 letters:
carnelian

Alternative clues for the word carnelian

Word definitions for carnelian in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Carnelian (born September 21) is a Japanese female CG and dōjinshi artist. She had done artwork and character designs for various anime , products, visual novels, and regular novels. Some of her best-known visual novel games include Moonlight Lady , Yami ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"red variety of chalcedony," variant of cornelian , altered by influence of Latin carnem "flesh" because of its color.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context mineralogy English) A hard, reddish brown chalcedony; used in jewelery,

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a translucent red or orange variety of chalcedony [syn: cornelian ]

Usage examples of carnelian.

Khem in obsidian, Bast in carnelian, Besa in serpentine, signets in jasper, and ropes of diamonds which had been Babylonian gems of spoil.

Green Silverhill Columbella Sea Jade Black Amber Seven Tears for Apollo Window on the Square Blue Fire Thunder Heights The Moonflower Skye Cameron The Trembling Hills The Quicksilver Pool The Red Carnelian For Julie Fallowfield, for so many years my friend, agent, and counselor.

Most specifically, from agents of Carnelian and Sheltok, the Concerns that have the most to lose.

The attendant covered the loop with wax, into which Dama then firmly pressed his carnelian seal ring.

His overhasty departure from K-L was occasioned by a nasty flap back on Artiuk involving some drunken Carnelian robotics engineers, a much-prized xeno domestic animal, and an enraged Haluk bureaucrat.

Something bright and singing danced in her veins, cantatas of molten carnelians, garnets like stars, the ecstatic smell of burning rubies .

Firelight struck the polished carnelians, turning them to fire and blood in his fingers.

In unblighted sunlight the carnelians and agates, amethysts and citrines that decorated its sides would have twinkled brightly.

Turquoise, malachite, lapis lazuli, carnelian, jasper and other sparkling gemstones represented the various nucleotides arranged on the twisting strands.

Rings glinted on his fingers, set with gemstones, a banded cabochon of onyx, polished sapphire, and a waxy red carnelian.

Each white butterfly spark bloomed with color ruby, sapphire, emerald, carnelian, aquamarine, amethyst and rose quartz, banded chalcedony, iridescent opaleach one as lustrous as a gem.

In the heart of the lair in forgotten cloisters of granite down where a second darkness covers the light carnelian, there in our midst, we imagine, lie the stones of redemption where we have relinquished them to a light so brilliant that after the days of sun and the stars' corona, the memory marks the eye in its changed interior where the color of light inverts yellow remembered as violet green as the red of the blood unveiled as the blood we have spilled over hearts and stones as the last of the light assembles hard upon what we imagine here in the marshes, on wing in the early and the blackening swamp where the heart of the lair is fixed and holy speaking forever of miracles because we remember it so.

Cedarwood boxes were packed with treasures: vases of crystalline flowers, misty-swirling dragon orbs, magic masks inlaid with eyes of lapis lazuli, necklaces of tiger teeth, brass rings, bracelets and anklets set with orange carnelian and purple amethyst.

Never again to see the city of carnelian skies, never to feel the presence of brothers, of patient Domel and.

There were massive gold bracelets on his arms, bracelets set with jacinths and opals, carnelians and flashing emeralds.