balas ruby : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: balas ruby	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for balas ruby
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
balas ruby n a pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel [syn: balas, balas ruby]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Balas ruby \Bal"as ru`by\ [OE. bales, balais, F. balais, LL. balascus, fr. Ar. balakhsh, so called from Badakhshan, Balashan, or Balaxiam, a place in the neighborhood of Samarcand, where this ruby is found.] (Min.) A variety of spinel ruby, of a pale rose red, or inclining to orange. See {Spinel}.