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balas ruby
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun balas ruby has 1 sense
- balas ruby(n = noun.substance) balas - a pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel; Array is a kind of ruby spinel, spinel ruby
CIDE DICTIONARY
balas ruby, [OE. bales, balais, F. balais, LL. balascus, fr. Ar. balakhsh, so called from Badakhshan, Balashan, or Balaxiam, a place in the neighborhood of Samarkand, where this ruby is found.].
A variety of spinel ruby, of a pale rose red, or inclining to orange. See Spinel. [1913 Webster]
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