a popular name, originating on Holy Island and the Northumbrian coast, for the detached and perforated joints of encrinites there found.
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| 释义 | the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > division Pelmatozoa > class Crinoidea > fossil or encrinite > fragments or joints of (5) St. Cuthbert's beads1697 a popular name, originating on Holy Island and the Northumbrian coast, for the detached and perforated joints of encrinites there found. fairy beads1767 the disc-shaped stem ossicles of fossil crinoids (encrinites). basket-stones1851 fossil fragments of the stems of Crinoidea. fairy cheeses1869 †(a) the disc-shaped stem ossicles of fossil crinoids; cf. fairy beads n. (obsolete rare); (b) English regional any of several mallows of the genus… bead-stone1896 (a) a stone used as a bead, or of which beads are made; (b) Zoology (see quot. 1896). |
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