Definition of "bloodstone" [blood•stone]

• A variety of deep-green chalcedony flecked with red jasper. Also called heliotrope. (noun)

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• ""It is called a bloodstone," T’Shael said on yet another day."
• "In the booty captured in a savage raid, Kane discovers a ring, a bloodstone, which is key to the power that lies buried, inactive but not dea, within the forest."
• "There was an unfacetted crimson gem (he vaguely remembered having heard a similar gem called a bloodstone) in the grip, just behind one of the smooth, tapering arms of the guard."