cystolith
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English
Etymology
Noun
cystolith (plural cystoliths)
- (botany) A concretion of mineral matter within a leaf or other part of a plant.
- (medicine) A urinary calculus.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “cystolith”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)