aventurine : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: aventurine	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for aventurine
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
aventurine n a translucent quartz spangled with bits of mica or other minerals Synonym(s): sunstone, aventurine
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Aventurine \Aven"turine\, n. [F. aventurine: cf. It. avventurino.] 1. A kind of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass. 2. (Min.) A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica. {Aventurine feldspar}, a variety of oligoclase with internal firelike reflections due to the presence of minute crystals, probably of hematite; sunstone.