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anthropolite

anthropolite noun: a petrified human body, or of any portion of it.

Noun

anthropolite (plural anthropolites)

  1. (dated) A petrified human body, or of any portion of it.
    • It was in conglomerates of this kind that were discovered the famous Carib skeletons, known as anthropolites, that is, "stone men," one of which is preserved in the Natural History Museum, South Kensington.1901, Augustus Henry Keane, Central and South America, volume 2, page 401

Forms of anthropolite

pluralanthropolites

Origin of anthropolite

From anthropo- + -lite.

Questions about anthropolite

What does anthropolite mean?
Anthropolite means a petrified human body, or of any portion of it.
What part of speech is anthropolite?
Anthropolite is a noun.
What is the plural of anthropolite?
The plural of anthropolite is anthropolites.

Words near anthropolite in the dictionary

  1. anthropolatry
  2. anthropolinguist
  3. anthropolinguistic
  4. anthropolinguistics
  5. anthropolinguists
  6. anthropolite
  7. anthropolites
  8. anthropolith
  9. anthropoliths
  10. anthropologian
  11. anthropologians

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