tiger's eye

See also: tiger's-eye

English

Alternative forms

• tiger's-eye, tiger eye

Noun

tiger's eye (plural tiger's eyes)

1. A chatoyant gemstone that is usually yellow- to red-brown, with a silky lustre.
   • 1913 June, Willa Sibert Cather, chapter I, in O Pioneers!, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], →OCLC, part I (The Wild Land), page 11:

     Every one noticed her eyes; the brown iris had golden glints that made them look like gold-stone, or, in softer lights, like that Colorado mineral called tiger-eye.

Translations

chatoyant gemstone

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: тигрово око n (tigrovo oko)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 虎眼石 (zh) (hǔyǎnshí)

• Danish: tigerøje n
• Finnish: tiikerinsilmä
• French: œil-de-tigre (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Tigerauge (de) n
• Greek: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: tigrisszem (hu)
• Italian: occhio di tigre m
• Mongolian: барын нүд (baryn nüd)
• Polish: tygrysie oko n
• Portuguese: olho de tigre m
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: тигро́вый глаз (ru) m (tigróvyj glaz)
• Spanish: ojo de tigre m

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