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fire opals

fire opals is the plural of fire opal.

Meaning of fire opal

Noun

fire opal (countable and uncountable, plural fire opals)

  1. (uncountable, usually) Any transparent to translucent opal with a warm body colour of yellow, orange, or red.
    • […] the body of each high seat was a single jewel of monstrous size: the left-hand seat a black opal, asparkle with steel-blue fire, the next a fire-opal, as it were a burning coal, the third seat an alexandrite, purple like wine by night but deep sea-green by day.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 2
    1. (countable, usually) Such opal serving as a gemstone.

Questions about fire opals

What is fire opals the plural of?
Fire opals is the plural of fire opal.

Words near fire opals in the dictionary

  1. fire off
  2. fire officer
  3. fire officers
  4. fire on all cylinders
  5. fire opal
  6. fire opals
  7. fire out
  8. fire pan
  9. fire pans
  10. fire people
  11. fire philosopher

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