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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Crystallized iron pyrites or pyrite, early used as a gem.
- noun The clavated fossil spine of a very large egg-shaped echinus.
- noun The basalt capping the coal-measures on the Titterstone and Brown Clee hills in Shropshire, England; also, the local name of a limestone-bed belonging to the White Lias (Rhætic) in Somersetshire.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Paleon.) A large clavate spine of a fossil sea urchin.
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