† cerauniten.
/sɪˈrɔːnʌɪt/ Obsolete.
‘Thunderstone’: applied by some early mineralogists to a meteorite or to meteoric iron; by others to belemnites, and to flint arrow-heads of prehistoric times viewed as ‘thunder-bolts’.
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the world > the universe > constellation > comet or meteor > meteor > [noun] > meteorite
stone1628
sky stone1750
meteoric stone1809
meteorolite1812
ceraunite1814
meteor stone1818
meteorite1823
star-glint1825
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > native elements and alloys > [noun] > native iron
ceraunite1814
steel iron1839
taenite1868
Nife1909
the world > life > biology > organism > fossil > [noun] > types of
astroite1610
belemnite1646
mussel-stone1660
scallop-stone1668
trochite1676
conchite1677
ophiomorphite1677
pectinite1677
worm-stone1677
musculite1681
serpent-stone1681
sugar-plum1681
glossopetraa1684
ague shell1708
forket1708
mytilite1727
grit1748
phytolithus1761
fairy beads1767
fairy fingers1780
fairy arrow1794
gryphite1794
ram's horn1797
hysterolite1799
tubulite1799
thunder-pick1801
celleporite1808
ceraunite1814
seraph1822
serpulite1828
coprolite1829
subfossil1831
pencil1843
trigonellite1845
buccinite1852
rudist1855
guide fossil1867
witch's cradle1867
coccolith1868
fairy cheeses1869
discolith1871
Portland screw1871
spiniferite1872
cyatholith1875
cryptozoon1883
sabellite1889
palaeospecies1895
homoeomorph1898
rudistid1900
megafossil1932
scolecodont1933
macrofossil1937
hystrichosphere1955
palynomorph1961
acritarch1963
molecular fossil1965
mitrate1967
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > a stone > [noun] > meteorite
stone1628
sky stone1750
thunderbolt1802
meteoric stone1809
meteorolite1812
ceraunite1814
meteor stone1818
meteorite1823
uranolith1823
the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > archaeology > artefacts
scyphus1722
ceraunite1814
skyphos1847
shaft-hole1852
ostracon1853
scramasax1862
shard1865
ovate1872
omphalos1884
stop-ridge1894
tsung1904
pygmy flint1907
spacer1907
dotaku1908
yuan1912
roughout1913
rostro-carinate1919
shawabti1922
racloir1923
shoe-last1927
sleeve1929
ard1931
proto-biface1967
1814 T. Allan Mineral. Nomencl. 10 Ceraunite (used as a synonym of meteoric iron or stone).
1816 P. Cleaveland Elem. Treat. Mineral. & Geol. 235 Ceraunite, or thunder stone, often belongs to Jasper.
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