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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The red variety of tourmaline, used as a gemstone.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A red or pink variety of tourmalin found on the island of Elba, in Siberia, in Brazil, and at Paris in Maine. The ruby in the imperial crown of Russia is believed to be a rubellite.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Min.) A variety of tourmaline varying in color from a pale rose to a deep ruby, and containing lithium.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun a red to violet variety of tourmaline used as a gemstone

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin rubellus, red; see rubella + –ite.]

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