tiger's eye

tiger's eye

English

Alternative forms

• tiger eye

Noun

tiger's eye (plural tiger's eyes)

1. A chatoyant gemstone that is usually yellow- to red-brown, with a silky lustre.
   • 1913 June, Willa Sibert Cather, chapter I, in O Pioneers!, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], OCLC 878906256, part I (The Wild Land), page 11:

     Every one noticed her eyes; the brown iris had golden glints that made them look like gold-stone, or, in softer lights, like that Colorado mineral called tiger-eye.

Translations

chatoyant gemstone

Bulgarian: тигрово око n (tigrovo oko) Chinese: Mandarin: 虎眼石 (zh) (hǔyǎnshí) Danish: tigerøje n Finnish: tiikerinsilmä French: œil-de-tigre (fr) m German: Tigerauge (de) n Italian: occhio di tigre m Mongolian: барын нүд (baryn nüd) Portuguese: olho de tigre m Russian: тигро́вый глаз (ru) m (tigróvyj glaz) Spanish: ojo de tigre m

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