Tiger’s Eye

Tiger's eye

Tiger's eye is a chatoyant gemstone that is usually a metamorphic rock with a golden to red-brown colour and a silky lustre. As members of the quartz group, tiger's eye and the related blue-coloured mineral hawk's eye gain their silky, lustrous appearance from the parallel intergrowth of quartz crystals and altered amphibole fibres that have mostly turned into limonite.

Eye

An eye is a sensory organ that allows an organism to perceive visual information. It detects light and converts it into electro-chemical impulses in neurons (neurones). It is part of an organism's visual system.

Tiger

The tiger is a large cat and a member of the genus Panthera native to Asia. It has a powerful, muscular body with a large head and paws, a long tail and orange fur that fades to white in parts, with black, mostly vertical stripes. It is traditionally classified into nine subspecies, though some recognise only two subspecies, the mainland Asian tiger and the Sunda Islands tiger.

tiger

Noun

1. Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
2. A male tiger; as opposed to a tigress.

Noun

1. A final shouted phrase, accompanied by a jump or outstretched arms, at the end of a cheer.

eye

Noun

1. An organ through which animals see (“perceive surroundings via light”).
2. The visual sense.

Verb

1. To carefully or appraisingly observe (someone or something).
2. To consider.