moonstone

/moon-stohn/US // ˈmunˌstoʊn //UK // (ˈmuːnˌstəʊn) //

月光石,月亮石,月光岩,月石

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : Also called precious moonstone. a semitransparent or translucent, opalescent, pearly-blue variety of adularia, used as a gem.
- : any of several adularescent feldspars, as certain varieties of albite, labradorite, or oligoclase, used as gems.
- : any milky or girasol stone used as a gem.

Of all her trinkets, and she had many and valuable ones, none so charmed the fool as the moonstone pendant.
I always measure things by that six hundred dollars, just as I measure high buildings by the Moonstone standpipe.
Nearly all my dreams, except those about breaking down on the stage or missing trains, are about Moonstone.
If the jugglers were innocent, who, in the name of wonder, had taken the Moonstone out of Miss Rachel's drawer?
She only once alluded to the matter of the Moonstone, and that was in the way of forbidding any present mention of it between us.