fire opal

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   an opal with flaming orange and yellow and red colors

   Synonymsgirasol

   Broaderopal

Questions about fire opal

What does fire opal mean?

fire opal means "an opal with flaming orange and yellow and red colors".

What is another word for fire opal?

Close synonyms include girasol. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fire opal a common word?

fire opal is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.