bloodstone

English

Hematite (in quartz).

Etymology

From blood +‎ stone, from the fact that the red inclusions in the stone resemble blood.

Pronunciation

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Noun

bloodstone (plural bloodstones)

1. A green chalcedony that is sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite.

   Synonym: heliotrope

   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

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

   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 148:

     The magician wore a blood-stone ring […]

2. Hematite.

Translations

green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: heliotropi (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 血滴石 (zh) (xuèdīshí), 血石 (zh) (xuèshí), 血石髓 (xuèshísuǐ), 血玉髓 (zh) (xuèyùsuǐ)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: verikivi, heliotrooppi (fi)
• French: pierre de sang f, héliotrope (fr) f
• Irish: cloch fhola f
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 혈석 (hyeolseok)
• Latin: heliotropium n
• Macedonian: хелиотро́п m (heliotróp)
• Persian: سنگ جهودان (sang-e johudân), سنگ خون (sang-e xun)
• Polish: heliotrop (pl) m
• Portuguese: heliotropo m, heliotrópio (pt) m
• Romanian: heliotrop (ro) n
• Russian: гелиотро́п (ru) m (geliotróp), крова́вик (ru) m (krovávik)
• Spanish: heliotropo m
• Swedish: heliotrop (sv) c
• Tagalog: alakeka, dugumbato
• Ukrainian: геліотро́п m (heliotróp)
• Vietnamese: đá máu
• Welsh: gwaedfaen m

hematite — see hematite