Meaning & use
girasol
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Meanings
nouncountabletechnical
A pale, bluish-white opal that glows with a floating light when turned.
Grammar: A technical gem term: a girasol opal.
Patterns
- a girasol opal
The jeweler showed her a girasol set in silver.
A girasol appears to glow from inside.
He collects girasols from old estate sales.
nouncountablerare
A kind of sunflower or other plant that turns toward the sun.
Grammar: Borrowed from Spanish and Italian, rare in English.
Fields of girasol bloom in southern Spain.
The painter chose a girasol for her canvas.
Word forms
| plural | girasols |
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Common combinations
- girasol opal
- A girasol opal has a milky glow.
- girasol ring
- She wore a girasol ring.
- glowing girasol
- The glowing girasol caught the lamplight.
- polished girasol
- A polished girasol sold quickly.
Synonyms and how they differ
Word family
- opal noun
- a gem that shows shifting colors
- opalescent adjective
- showing milky shifting colors
- girasole noun
- the Italian spelling meaning sunflower
Commonly confused: girasol or gyrasol?
girasol vs gyrasol
This is not the standard spelling; use girasol.
Practice
A girasol is best described as ____.
Choose one answer.
Girasol is a milky opal with a floating glow. The others are unrelated objects.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “girasol”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.