- 40th anniversary gem
- A gem
- Deep red
- Deep red gem
- Deep-red gem
- Gemstone
- July birthstone
- A stone
- Deep red gem
- Gemstone found in freshwater fish trap
- January birthstone
- January stone
- Precious stone
- Red gemstone
- Bulb flower
- Bulb flowers
- Cynthia out to get first handful of fragrant bloom
- Fragrant flower
- Fragrant lily
- Invasive weed, water ...
- Leading horticulturist upsets Cynthia with fragrant bulb
- A variety of garnet, of a poppy or blood-red color,
frequently with a tinge of orange. It is used as a gem. See the Note
under Garnet.
- A mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals, usually of a
brown or gray color. It consists of silica and zirconia. A red variety,
used as a gem, is called hyacinth. Colorless, pale-yellow or
smoky-brown varieties from Ceylon are called jargon.
- A mineral occuring in octahedrons of great hardness and
various colors, as red, green, blue, brown, and black, the red variety
being the gem spinel ruby. It consist essentially of alumina and
magnesia, but commonly contains iron and sometimes also chromium.
- Garnet
- Large boil
- A beautiful gem of a deep red color (with a mixture of
scarlet) called by the Greeks anthrax; found in the East Indies. When
held up to the sun, it loses its deep tinge, and becomes of the color
of burning coal. The name belongs for the most part to ruby sapphire,
though it has been also given to red spinel and garnet.
- A very painful acute local inflammation of the
subcutaneous tissue, esp. of the trunk or back of the neck,
characterized by brawny hardness of the affected parts, sloughing of
the skin and deeper tissues, and marked constitutional depression. It
differs from a boil in size, tendency to spread, and the absence of a
central core, and is frequently fatal. It is also called anthrax.
- A charge or bearing supposed to represent the precious
stone. It has eight scepters or staves radiating from a common center.
Called also escarbuncle.