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单词 psaronite
释义

psaroniten.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin Psaronius , -ite suffix1.
Etymology: < scientific Latin Psaronius, genus name ( C. B. Cotta Dendrolithen in Beziehung auf ihren inneren Bau (1832) 27; < classical Latin psārōnius , former reading (e.g. in 16th-cent. editions) for psārānus , name of a precious stone (Pliny), of uncertain origin, probably ultimately < ancient Greek ψαρός speckled: see psarolite n.) + -ite suffix1. Compare earlier psarolite n.
Palaeontology. Obsolete.
= psarolite n.
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1859 D. Page Handbk. Geol. Terms 304 Psarolítes or Psaronítes... From this speckled appearance, which is visible to the naked eye, these fossils have also obtained the popular name of Staarein-stein or Star-stone.
1865 D. Page Handbk. Geol. Terms (ed. 2) 373 Psaronites also occur in the Upper Coal-measures of France, United States, &c.
1876 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 166 11 My specimens are confined to small masses of the adventitious roots so characteristic of the Psaronites and arborescent ferns.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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