Bloodstone

Blood′stoneˊ

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Noun.

(Min.)

(a)

A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; – called also

heliotrope

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(b)

Hematite, an ore of iron yielding a blood red powder or “streak.”

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Noun.

[blood and stone.] A stone, imagined, if worn as an amulet, to be a good preventive of bleeding at the nose. [See Hematite.]

bloodstone ‎(plural bloodstones)

A green chalcedony that has been sprinkled with red spots (which resemble blood, hence the name).

type of green chalcedony

Chinese:
Mandarin: 血石 (zh) ‎(xuèshí), 血石髓 ‎(xuèshísuǐ), 血滴石 (zh) ‎(xuèdīshí), 血玉髓 (zh) ‎(xuèyùsuǐ)
Finnish: verikivi, heliotrooppi (fi)
Latin: heliotropium n