单词 | osteocolla |
释义 | osteocollan. Geology. Now rare. A calcareous deposit forming an incrustation on the roots and stems of plants in sandy ground, esp. in some parts of Germany.Formerly also called glue-bone stone, from its supposed ability to help the knitting of broken bones. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > [noun] > mineral incrustation osteocolla1653 knitbone1681 bone glue1741 scrowl1778 sinter1780 pearl sinter1821 calc-sinter1823 osteolith1857 bone cement1864 the world > plants > part of plant > plant substances > [noun] > deposit on plant osteocolla1653 stone-binder1791 bone cement1864 1653 N. Culpeper Pharmacopœia Londinensis 53/2 Mettals, Stones, Salts, and other Minerals...Oaker, yellow and red, Onyx, Opalus, Ophytes, Osteocolla, [etc.]. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia ii. 93 Ostiocolla..is glutinative. 1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. xix. 289 It doth so wonderfully cement together the parts of broken and well-set bones, that it deserves the name it commonly hath in the shops of osteocolla. 1729 Philos. Trans. 1727–8 (Royal Soc.) 35 509 The Disposition of the Strata..was as follows: A black Soil four Foot deep, Gravel two Foot and a Half, the Middle whereof was made up of Osteocolla and Stones to the Depth of two Foot. 1799 R. Kirwan Geol. Ess. iv. 142 One of the roots of a pine tree..converted into the calcareous petrifaction called Osteocolla. 1816 P. Cleaveland Elem. Treat. Mineral. & Geol. 169 Osteocolla, to which has been attributed the property of facilitating the union of a fractured bone. 1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Another name for the Osteocolla or glue-bone stone. 1879 F. Rutley Study of Rocks xiv. 302 The variety of tufa named osteocolla consists of calcareous deposits around twigs and mosses. 1983 S. I. Tomkeieff Dict. Petrol. 407/1 Osteocolla, a cellular calcareous tufa which forms as an incrustation on plants and which resembles a mass of small bones. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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