Definitions for sapphirine

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sapphirine sap·phir·ine

Spelling: [saf-er-in, -uh-reen, -uh-rahyn]

IPA: /ˈsæf ər ɪn, -əˌrin, -əˌraɪn/

Sapphirine is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 571 anagrams from letters in sapphirine (aehiinpprs).

Definitions for sapphirine

adjective

1. consisting of sapphire; like sapphire, especially in color.

noun

1. a pale-blue or greenish, usually granular mineral, a silicate of magnesium and aluminum.
2. a blue variety of spinel.

Origin of sapphirine

1375-1425; late Middle English saphyryn (Old French) ≪ Greek sappheírinos like lapis lazuli (see sapphire, -ine¹); (def 2) Germ

Examples for sapphirine

Ghosts—ghosts—the sapphirine air Teems with them even to the gleaming ends Of the wild day-spring!

Whatever there was in the bit of sapphirine blue, it had life.

Her sapphirine eyes were shining, her hands lay inert in her lap, her lips quivered softly.

In spiders they are often of a sapphirine colour, and clear as crystal.

He would have taken her hand on this, but the grave, direct gaze of her sapphirine eyes restrained him.