Cubepost Technology Developer World Politics News Learn Gadgets Arts Play Cubepost Technology Developer World Politics News Learn Gadgets Arts Play Cubepost Technology Developer World Politics News Learn Gadgets Arts Play Cubepost Technology Developer World Politics News Learn Gadgets Arts Play

Webster's Online English Dictionary

100000+ words defined.
Meaning of word: Powered by Webster's Unabridged Dictionary

ruby


ruby is a   Noun

Definition:

[1] A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum.

[2] The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint. The natural ruby of your cheeks. Shak.

[3] That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.

[4] See Agate, n., 2. [Eng.]

[5] Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolæma. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast. Ruby of arsenic, Ruby of sulphur (Chem.), a glassy substance of a red color and a variable composition, but always consisting chiefly of the disulphide of arsenic; -- called also ruby sulphur. -- Ruby of zinc (Min.), zinc sulphide; the mineral zinc blende or sphalerite. -- Ruby silver (Min.), red silver. See under Red.


Synonyms:


cubepost-logo

Allow Updates from cubepost.red

Not Allow

Allow