Usually means: Reflects light like a cat's eye.
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  1. chatoyant: Merriam-Webster
  2. chatoyant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chatoyant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chatoyant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chatoyant: Vocabulary.com
  6. chatoyant: Wordnik
  7. chatoyant: Wiktionary
  8. chatoyant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. chatoyant: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Chatoyant, chatoyant: Dictionary.com
  11. Chatoyant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Chatoyant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. chatoyant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. chatoyant: Rhymezone
  15. Chatoyant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. chatoyant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. chatoyant: FreeDictionary.org
  18. chatoyant: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. chatoyant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. chatoyant: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Chatoyant: World Wide Words

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  1. chatoyant: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (chatoyant)

adjective:  (jewelry) Having a certain optical reflectance effect, which can be likened to the sheen of a spool of silk.
noun:  (mineralogy) A hard stone, such as the cat's-eye, which presents on a polished surface, and in the interior, an undulating or wavy light.

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