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ostracite|ˈɒstrəsaɪt|
(Formerly in L. form.)
[ad. L. ostracītēs, a stone mentioned by Pliny, a. Gr. ὀστρακίτης earthen, testaceous, f. ὄστρακον shell: see ostracean.]
A fossil shell of a species or genus allied to the oyster.
[1601Holland Pliny II. 629 As for Ostracites, it took the name of an Oystre shell, which it doth represent.] 1653Culpepper Pharm. Londin. 54 Ostrocites, a drachm of it taken in pouder provokes the terms. 1677Plot Oxfordsh. 113 On Cowley-common we find nothing but Ostracites. 1753Chambers Cycl. Suppl., Ostracites, in natural history, a name given by authors to the fossile oisters, common in many parts of England. 1852Th. Ross Humboldt's Trav. I. vi. 204 In the greatest part [of the beds] the cardites, the turbinites, the ostracites..are found. |