Bloodstone vs Garnet - What's the difference?
bloodstone | garnet |
A green chalcedony that has been sprinkled with red spots (which resemble blood, hence the name).
(mineral) A hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 127:
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A dark red.
Of a dark red colour.
As nouns the difference between bloodstone and garnet
is that bloodstone is a green chalcedony that has been sprinkled with red spots (which resemble blood, hence the name) while garnet is (mineral) a hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives or garnet can be (nautical) a tackle for hoisting cargo in or out.As an adjective garnet is
of a dark red colour.bloodstone
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Noun
(en noun)See also
* heliotropegarnet
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(wikipedia garnet)Etymology 1
From (etyl) granate, from (etyl) grenate, from .Noun
(en noun)- How many needles Betty Flanders had lost there! and her garnet brooch.
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