star sapphire

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   a sapphire that when cut shows a starlike figure in reflected light because of its crystalline structure

   Broadersapphire

Questions about star sapphire

What does star sapphire mean?

star sapphire means "a sapphire that when cut shows a starlike figure in reflected light because of its crystalline structure".

Is star sapphire a common word?

star sapphire is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.