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单词 mushroom stone
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mushroom stonen.

Brit. /ˈmʌʃruːm ˌstəʊn/, /ˈmʌʃrʊm ˌstəʊn/, U.S. /ˈməʃˌrum ˌstoʊn/, /ˈməʃˌrʊm ˌstoʊn/
Forms: see mushroom n. and stone n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mushroom n., stone n.
Etymology: < mushroom n. + stone n.With the specific use in sense 2 compare German pilzförmige Götzenbilder (plural), literally ‘mushroom-shaped idols’ (C. Sapper 1898, in Globus 73 327/1).
1. (a) A coral, or fossil coral, with a skeleton resembling a fungus (cf. mushroom coral n. at mushroom n. and adj. Compounds 2). Obsolete. (b) A piece of tufa resembling a fungus. Obsolete.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > concretion or petrifaction > [noun] > coral > specific
coral-stone1607
mushroom stone1668
starry stone1677
mushroom coral1681
stone-mushroom1687
organ-pipe coral1833
Neptune's cup1839
1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 267 Fungites..Mushrum-stone.
a1728 J. Woodward Attempt Nat. Hist. Fossils Eng. (1729) 137 Fifteen other mushroom-stones of near the same shape with the precedent... These are of a white colour, and in shape exactly resembling a sort of coralline fungus of marine original, which I have by me.
1770 Philos. Trans. 1769 (Royal Soc.) 59 p. xviii [In list of presents made to the Society] A Mushroom Stone from Italy.
1860 A. N. Bell Knowl. Living Things 75 Mushroom-Stones, which are exported from Italy, are a species of volcanic tufa.
2. Archaeology. Any of a number of stone artefacts, usually around 30 cms (12 inches) high, carved in the form of a mushroom cap supported by the figure of an animal, god, etc., found in Guatemala and occasionally elsewhere in Mesoamerica.Mushroom stones are chiefly Mayan in origin and have been dated between approximately 1500 b.c. and 900 a.d. They are believed to be associated with the ritual use of hallucinogenic mushrooms.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun] > a sculpture or carving
graving1382
carvingc1384
similitudea1450
piece1579
insculpturea1616
sculpture1616
draught1646
cut1658
cutting1787
sculpc1845
mushroom stone1957
1957 V. P. Watson & R. G. Wasson Mushrooms, Russia & Hist. xiv. 276 We were the first to suggest..that the ‘mushroom stones’ were actually stone effigies of mushrooms, that there had been at one time a cult of the mushroom in the highlands of Guatemala.
1969 Science 17 Jan. 246/3 Archaeological ‘mushroom stones’ indicate that a sophisticated mushroom cult existed in Guatemala 3500 years ago.
1974 M. C. Gerald Pharmacol. xvii. 326Mushroom stones’, depicting the head or entire figure of a god.., have been found in Guatemala.
1999 Encycl. Brit. Online (Version 99.1) at Pre-Columbian civilizations Also present in the tombs are peculiar ‘mushroom stones’, which may actually have been used in rites connected with hallucinogenic mushrooms.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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