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hippurite Palæont.|ˈhɪpjʊraɪt|
[ad. mod.L. Hippūrītēs, f. Gr. ἵππουρος horse-tailed (cf. prec.), subst., a sea-fish (Coryphæna hippurus), and a kind of insect.]
1. A fossil bivalve mollusc of the genus Hippurites or family Hippuritidæ.
[1814J. Parkinson in Geol. Trans. II. 277 Observations on the Specimens of Hippurites from Sicily.] 1842H. Miller O.R. Sandst. viii. (ed. 2) 187 An entirely new field among the hippurites, sphærulites, and nummulites of the same formations. 1851–6Woodward Mollusca 40 The hippurite is distinguished by a cancellated texture.
b. attrib. or adj. = hippuritic.
1863Lyell Antiq. Man x. (ed. 3) 174 These caves are situated in rocks of hippurite limestone.
2. ‘A kind of fossil cup-coral, Cyathophyllum ceratites of Goldfuss’ (Cent. Dict.).
Hence hippuˈritic a., pertaining to, or containing, hippurites (sense 1). |