sapphire : Idioms & Phrases

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sapphire berry

  • noun deciduous shrub of eastern Asia bearing decorative bright blue fruit
    Symplocus paniculata; Asiatic sweetleaf.
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star sapphire

  • noun a sapphire that when cut shows a starlike figure in reflected light because of its crystalline structure
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Star sapphire, ∨ Asteriated sapphire

  • (Min.), a kind of sapphire which exhibits asterism.
Webster 1913

water sapphire

  • noun a deep blue cordierite often used as a gemstone
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Wa"ter sap"phire
Etymology
Equiv. to F. saphir d'eau.
Definitions
  1. (Min.) A deep blue variety of iolite, sometimes used as a gem; -- called also saphir d'eau.
Webster 1913