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单词 hysterolite
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hysteroliten.

Forms: 1700s hysteriolite, 1800s hysterolite.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin hysterolithos.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin hysterolithos (1609; also hysterolita (1708 or earlier)) < ancient Greek ὑστέρα womb (see hystero- comb. form2) + λίθος stone (see -lite comb. form1), apparently so called from its shape, although it resembles the vulva more than the womb.Compare French hystérolithe (1729 or earlier), hystérolite (1771 or earlier). Compare the following earlier examples of hysterolithos, hysterolithus in English context:1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 120 Such are the stones Otites, or Auriculares, several sorts of Cardites, Lapides Mammillares, Hysterolithos, &c.1685 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis (new ed.) iii. i. 258 The Hermaphrodite. Commonly called Hysterolithos.1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Hysterolithus, a sort of Stone.
Palaeontology. Obsolete.
A fossil lamp shell (brachiopod), often a fossil impression of the inside of such a shell.
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1799 R. Kirwan Geol. Ess. v. 244 Petrifactions, as hysteriolites, mytilites, &c. are found in it [sc. rubble stone].
1822 Ann. Philos. New Ser. 4 424 Fig. 10 is an indistinct fragment of the impression, probably of the lower valve of an hysterolite.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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