balaniten.
/ˈbalənʌɪt/ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > other gems or precious stones > [noun]
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxvii. x. 625 As for the stone Balanites, there be two kinds..of a greenish colour, and resembling Corinth brasse.
1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 69 Beset with Bal'nites, Rubies, Chrysolites.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Some think the balanites to have been the lapis judaicus.]
2. A fossil balanid.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Entomostraca > order Cirripedia > suborder Thoracica > member of family Balanidae > fossil
balanite1835
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals xiii The second Order of Cirripedes consists of the Balanites or Acorn-barnacles.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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