Usually means: Mineral used for Viking navigation.
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  1. sunstone: Merriam-Webster
  2. sunstone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sunstone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sunstone: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sunstone: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sunstone, sunstone: Wordnik
  7. sunstone: Wiktionary
  8. sunstone: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. sunstone: Dictionary.com
  10. Sunstone (comics), Sunstone (disambiguation), Sunstone (magazine), Sunstone (medieval), Sunstone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Sunstone: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. sunstone: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. sunstone: Rhymezone
  14. Sunstone: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. sunstone: FreeDictionary.org
  16. sunstone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. sunstone: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sunstone: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SUNSTONE: The Mineral Gallery

(Note: See sunstones as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sunstone)

noun:  (mineralogy) A translucent form of feldspar having flakes of hematite, used as an ornamental stone.
noun:  A stone, possibly Icelandic spar, said in late medieval sources to have been used by navigators in the Viking Age and later to find the location of the sun in an overcast sky, possibly via polatization of light.

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