Ruby - Law Dictionary Search Results

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Balas ruby

A variety of spinel ruby of a pale rose red or inclining to orange See Spinel...

any bird of the family Trochilidaelig of which over one hundred genera are known including about four hundred species They are found only in America and are most abundant in the tropics They are mostly of very small size with long slender bills adapted to sucking nectar from flowers and are noted for the very brilliant iridescent colors of their plumage and their peculiar habit of hovering about flowers while vibrating their wings very rapidly with a humming noise the wings are specialized for hovering flight but they can also dart forward and fly quite rapidly They feed both upon the nectar of flowers and upon small insects The common humming bird or ruby throat of the Eastern United States is Trochilus colubris Several other species are found in the Western United States See Calliope and Ruby throat...

blood red

having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of cherries or tomatoes or rubies or blood...

Corundum

The mineral alumina Al2O3 as found native in a crystalline state Transparent varieties are used as gemstones including sapphire which is the fine blue variety the oriental ruby or red sapphire the oriental amethyst or purple sapphire and adamantine spar the hair brown variety It is the hardest substance found native next to the diamond...

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Ruby - Law Dictionary Search Results

Balas ruby

hummingbird

blood red

Corundum

Espinel

Hairstreak

Parure

Proustite

Pyrargyrite

rubelet