tourmaline

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A complex black or dark-coloured borosilicate mineral, compounded with various chemical elements and considered a semi-precious stone.

   “The floor of the chamber was tesselated, of marble and green tourmaline, and on every square of tourmaline was carven the image of a fish: as the dolphin, the conger, the cat-fish, the salmon, the tunny, the squid, and other wonders of the deep.”

2. isim A transparent gemstone cut from it.