astroite

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English

Etymology

Latin astroites: compare French astroite.

Noun

astroite (plural astroites)

  1. (obsolete) A radiated fossil or stone; a starstone.
    Synonyms: astrion, astrite
    • , Herman Boerhaave, “Being a Delineation of the Theory. ”, in , transl., Elements of Chemistry. Being the Annual Lectures of Hermann Boerhaave, M.D. , volume I, London: J. Clarke , and S. Austen ; and sold by J. Roberts , →OCLC, page 33:
      The true Aſtroites, vvhich in the ſun-ſhine throvvs out a briſk light radiating from one certain point, belongs to the claſs of Pellucids.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “astroite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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