| 单词 | starry stone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstarry stone starry stone n. [after French pierre astroïte (see astroite n.)] now rare. any of various fossilized stony corals (order Scleractinia); cf. star stone n. 2. ΘΚΠ 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 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Hydrozoa > order Campanulariae > member of family Sertulariidae > having star-like forms star stone1652 starry stone1677 starry coral1681 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 87 Astroites or starry-stones, such as in bulk are irregular, but adorned all over with many stars. 1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 177 The Astroites, or Starry-Stone, as well that sort with the Prominent, as that with the Concave Stars. 1769 Descr. Eng. & Wales VII. 181 The astroites, or starry stones, are of an irregular bulk, and adorned all over with stars. 1981 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 292 205 This starry stone, it is inferred, was a manuport carried about 120 miles (ca. 193 km) from an outcrop of Jurassic..rock at Tisbury in Wiltshire. < as lemmas |
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