单词 | fungite |
释义 | fungiten. Now historical and rare. A coral or fossil coral with a skeleton thought to resemble a mushroom. Cf. mushroom coral n. at mushroom n. and adj. Compounds 2 and mushroom stone n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > fossil fungite1691 corallite1815 1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 68 Fungites, which grow upon the Rocks like Shrubs. 1798 G. Mitchell tr. D. L. G. Karsten Descr. Minerals in Leskean Mus. II. 419 A Fungite with an extremely short stem, not quite two inches in size; from Randberg in Switzerland. 1817 Monthly Mag. Nov. 341/1 Those [fossils] which I found most common were various species of corallines and madrepores (particularly the fungites;) belemnites;..several kinds of oysters and pectines. 1901 F. J. Troughton Classified List Minerals, Precious & other Stones 12 Fungite—a kind of fossil coral. 1997 M. J. S. Rudwick in tr. G. Cuvier Georges Cuvier, Fossil Bones, & Geol. Catastrophes (note) xii. 144 The small ‘fungite’ coral was one of the few fossils significant enough to be illustrated. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1691 |
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