| 单词 | honeycomb stone |
| 释义 | > as lemmashoneycomb stone honeycomb stone n. now rare. fossilized honeycomb coral of the genus Favosites (formerly Favaginites); (also) any of several other types of rock resembling honeycomb.Cf. honeycomb coral n., honeycomb limestone n., honeycomb rock n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > fossil > genus Favosites > member of honeycomb stone1658 honeycomb coral1790 1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iii, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 122 Observable rudiments there are hereof in subterraneous concretions, and bodies in the Earth;..in the Favaginites or honey-comb-stone. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Honeycomb-Stone. 1842 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 3 ii. 184 There are many other cases in point, such as the use of the honeycomb-stone..as a manure in Devonshire and Scotland. 1904 Queensland Govt. Mining Jrnl. 5 94 (table) Brown honeycomb stone. 2010 J. Francis Cloudehill ii. 84 The honeycomb stone we collected was a uniform dove-grey in colour. < as lemmas |
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