Labrador stone

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Noun

Labrador stone (countable and uncountable, plural Labrador stones)

  1. (now rare) Labradorite; Labrador spar.
    • 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 120:
      The beautiful prismatic colours seen on the Labrodore stone are owing to a similar cause, viz. the thinness of the laminæ of which it consists [] .