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Latin
Etymology
Unknown.
Noun
eureos m (genitive eureī); second declension
- An off-white striated stone, perhaps an echinoid spine.
Usage notes
The precise reading of this term is uncertain.
Declension
Second-declension noun (Greek-type).
References
- “eureos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- eureos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “eureos” on page 628/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- Liñán, Eladio, Liñán, María, Carrasco, Joaquín (2013) “Cryptopalaeontology”, in C. J. Duffin et al., editors, A History of Geology and Medicine, The Geological Society, →ISBN, page 50