| 单词 | fairy stone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfairy stone fairy stone n. colloquial and regional (a) a fossil sea urchin or echinite; (b) a flint arrowhead; = elf-shot n. 2; (c) U.S. = staurolite n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Echinoidea > fossil fairy stone1646 fairy loaf1827 shepherd's crown1893 shepherd's purse1893 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > arrow > [noun] > head of arrow > prehistoric arrow-head elf-arrow1590 arrowhead?1661 fairy dart1782 fairy stone1791 flint-head1796 projectile point1847 leaf arrowhead1878 fairy arrow1903 the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > nesosilicates > [noun] > subsaturate group > staurolite staurotide1802 grenatite1804 staurolite1815 staurolith1815 nordmarkite1868 fairy stone1916 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. i. 53 That we call a Fayrie stone, and is often found in gravell pits amongst us. View more context for this quotation 1791 Ford in J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. I. 73 Arrow points of flint, commonly called elf or fairy stones are to be seen here [i.e. at Lauder]. 1881 H. Smith & C. R. Smith Isle of Wight Words Fairy stones, fossil echini. 1916 Pop. Mech. Feb. 172/2 Perhaps the most curious mineral found in the United States is staurolite, otherwise known as ‘fairy stone’. 2006 M. A. Fariello Blue Ridge Roadways 143 This tiny building houses a unique museum devoted to thousands of examples of the area's fairy stones. < as lemmas |
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