单词 | catlinite |
释义 | catliniten. Mineralogy. The sacred pipe-stone of the American Indians, a kind of indurated red clay occurring in a bed of considerable extent in the region of the Upper Missouri, referred by Hayden to the Cretaceous formation. (Dana.) ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > clay > [noun] > suitable for pipes tobacco-pipe clay1667 tobacco clay1676 pipestone1804 pipeclay1806 catlinite1858 terra alba1871 1858 J. D. Dana Min. 252. 1883 Barter in Amer. Naturalist July Catlinite: its antiquity as a material for Tobacco pipes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1858 |
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