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noun, plural cat's-eyes.
1.
any of certain gems having a chatoyant luster, especially chrysoberyl.
2.
a playing marble marked with eyelike concentric circles.
Origin:
1545–55
1545–55
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Cat's-eye
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| cat's-eye | |
| —n | |
| 1. | any of a group of gemstones, esp a greenish-yellow variety of chrysoberyl, that reflect a streak of light when cut in a rounded unfaceted shape |
| 2. | Also called: ataata a grazing marine gastropod, Turbo smaragdus, of New Zealand waters |
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