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encrinite
[ en-kruh-nahyt ]
noun
- a fossil crinoid.
encrinite
/ 藞蓻苍办谤瑟藢苍补瑟迟 /
noun
- (in the US) a sedimentary rock formed almost exclusively from the skeletal plates of crinoids Sometimes shortened tocrinite
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of encrinite1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of encrinite1
Example Sentences
Stone鈥瞙orse, a stallion; Stone鈥-lil鈥瞴, the popular name of an Encrinite; Stone鈥-m膩鈥瞫on, a mason who works with stone; Stone鈥-mill, a machine for breaking stone; Stone鈥-oil, rock-oil, petroleum; Stone鈥-pine, a Mediterranean nut-pine; Stone鈥-plov鈥瞖r, the stone-curlew; St艒鈥瞡er, one who strikes or kills with stones; Stone鈥-rag, -raw, a lichen, Parmelia saxatilis; Stone鈥-snipe, the greater tell-tale or long-legged tattler, a common North American bird.鈥攁dj.
Pinn鈥才玪e, one of the branchlets of a pinnate leaf: one of the lateral divisions of the finger-like stalks of an encrinite鈥攁lso Pinn鈥才玪a.鈥擯innate leaf, a compound leaf wherein a single petiole has several leaflets attached to each side of it.
Encrinite, en鈥瞜ri-n墨t, n. a common fossil crinoid, found thick in limestone and marble鈥攃alled also Stone-lily.鈥攁djs.
Entrochite, en鈥瞭r艒-k墨t, n. a wheel-like joint of an encrinite or fossil crinoid鈥攁lso En鈥瞭rochus.鈥攁dj.
Then, silently and with great caution, Dummy led on along a wild chasm of the same nature as others they had passed, and formed, evidently during some convulsion, the encrinite marble of which the walls were composed matching exactly, and merely requiring lateral pressure and the trickling of lime-charged water to become solid once again.
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