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sunstones

sunstones is the plural of sunstone.

Meaning of sunstone

Noun

sunstone (countable and uncountable, plural sunstones)

  1. A translucent form of feldspar having flakes of hematite, used as an ornamental stone.
  2. 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.

Questions about sunstones

What is sunstones the plural of?
Sunstones is the plural of sunstone.

Words near sunstones in the dictionary

  1. sunstars
  2. sunstead
  3. sunsteads
  4. sunsted
  5. sunstone
  6. sunstones
  7. sunstricken
  8. sunstrike
  9. sunstroke
  10. sunstrokes
  11. sunstruck

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sunstones (page history and authors); sunstone (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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