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anthropolites

anthropolites is the plural of anthropolite.

Meaning of anthropolite

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

Questions about anthropolites

What is anthropolites the plural of?
Anthropolites is the plural of anthropolite.

Words near anthropolites in the dictionary

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

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