sunstone
sunstone noun: a translucent form of feldspar having flakes of hematite, used as an ornamental stone.
Noun
sunstone (countable and uncountable, plural sunstones)
- A translucent form of feldspar having flakes of hematite, used as an ornamental stone.
- A stone, possibly Icelandic spar, said in late medieval sources to have been used by navigators in the Viking Age and later to find the location of the sun in an overcast sky, possibly via polarization of light.
sunstone meaning in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada
sunstone in Tamil
- அனல்காலி, கதிர்ச்சிலை
sunstone in Telugu
- sunstone
- సూర్యకాంతము sūryakāntamu, అగ్నిగర్భము agnigarbhamu
sunstone in Kannada
- ಬಿಸುಗಲ್, ಬೆಂಗಲ್
Synonyms of sunstone
Forms of sunstone
| plural | sunstones |
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Origin of sunstone
sun + stone. Compare Icelandic sólarsteinn.
Questions about sunstone
- What does sunstone mean?
- Sunstone means a translucent form of feldspar having flakes of hematite, used as an ornamental stone.
- What is sunstone in Tamil?
- Sunstone in Tamil is அனல்காலி, கதிர்ச்சிலை. See Sunstone meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is sunstone?
- Sunstone is a noun.
- What is the plural of sunstone?
- The plural of sunstone is sunstones.
Words near sunstone in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: sunstone (page history and authors); sunstone (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); అగ్నిగర్భము (Telugu) (page history and authors); sunstone (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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