meaning of ruby
1. A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum.
2. The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
3. That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.
4. See Agate, n. , 2.
5. Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.
6. Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.
7. To make red; to redden.
8. a deep and vivid red
Related Words
ruby | ruby spinel | ruby wood | ruby-crowned kinglet | ruby-crowned wren | ruby-red | ruby-tailed | rubying | rubytail | rubythroat | rubywood |
