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antholites

antholites is the plural of antholite.

Meaning of antholite

Noun

antholite (plural antholites)

  1. A fossil plant resembling a petrified flower.
    • He considers this Antholite from the coal to be "the spike of a very highly organised flowering plant in full flower,", p. 20.1858, Charles Lyell, “Supplement to the Fifth Edition of a Manual of Elementary Geology”, in The British Review, volume 28
  2. A fibrous form of amphibole.
    • Antholite is fibrous or asbestiform, grey to brown; […] Cummingtonite is much like antholite, gey to brown; fibrous;1878, Joseph Henry Collins, Mineralogy - Volume 2, page 188

Questions about antholites

What is antholites the plural of?
Antholites is the plural of antholite.

Words near antholites in the dictionary

  1. antholatry
  2. anthole
  3. antholes
  4. antholeucin
  5. antholite
  6. antholites
  7. anthologer
  8. anthologers
  9. anthological
  10. anthologically
  11. anthologies

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