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† ˈmusculite Geol. Obs.
Also 8 muscullite, 9 muscelite.
[f. L. mūscul-us mussel + -ite.]
A fossil mussel shell; a mytilite.
1681Grew Musæum iii. i. i. 264 A sort of Musculites fill'd with Earth. 1799Kirwan Geol. Ess. 132 Only turbinites were found in the one, and in the other only chamites, or muscullites. Ibid. 243 Impressions of reeds or fern, sometimes of musculites, mytilites, &c., are found on it [shale]. 1829Glover's Hist. Derby I. 98 Occasionally the anomia and muscelite shells are met with in shale. |