Missouriumn.

Brit.

/mᵻˈzʊərɪəm/, U.S.

/məˈzʊriəm/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Missourium.

Etymology: < scientific Latin Missourium (A. Koch 1841 or earlier: see quot. 1841¹) < the name of the U.S. state of Missouri (see Missouri n. and adj.), where the fossil skeleton was discovered + classical Latin -um, neuter ending.Compare Koch's slightly earlier formation Missourian:1839 A. Koch in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 37 192 Until it is recognized or proved to have been previously described, I shall name it Koch's Missourian.

Palaeontology. Now historical.

A large fossil skeleton (or composite of more than one skeleton) found in Missouri around 1839, originally claimed to be a new species but later identified as a mastodon ( Mammut americanus). Also figurative.

ΚΠ

1841 A. Koch (title) Description of the Missourium, or Missouri leviathan.

1841 J. Pedder Let. 20 Nov. in Nat. Hist. (1936) Feb. 171/2 The Bones of the Missourium are arrived amongst you... I have taken up the Idea that the animal was of the Tortoise Tribe.

1842 Proc. Geol. Soc. 3 690 The author [sc. Richard Owen]..arrived at the conclusion that the Missourium is either a Tetracaulodon or Mastodon.

1850 R. W. Emerson Swedenborg in Representative Men iii. 104 One of the missouriums and mastodons of literature, he is not to be measured by whole colleges of ordinary scholars.

1870 A. J. Davis Approaching Crisis (ed. 2) 119 They were to the present race of men what the megatherium, the missourium, and the mammoth were to the present existing types of animals.

1887 Scribner's Mag. Apr. 473/2 In 1840 ‘Dr.’ Koch, a German charlatan, created a great sensation by announcing the discovery of the leviathan of Job, which he called the Missourium, from the State where it was found.

1942 H. F. Osborn Proboscidea II. 1602 On the same plate Dr. Warren figures Koch's ‘Missourium’, a composite of several specimens found near Kimmswick, Missouri and now in the British Museum.

1965 R. Silverberg Scientists & Scoundrels 57 He [sc. Koch] dubbed it Missourium, as though to set it apart from from the mastodons already known.

1992 J. W. Fox et al. Proboscidean & Paleoindian Interactions 15 The Peale Mastodon, Big Bone Lick, ‘The Missourium’–the history of these early proboscidean discoveries has been well told.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	missourium
释义	Missouriumn. Brit. /mᵻˈzʊərɪəm/, U.S. /məˈzʊriəm/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Missourium. Etymology: < scientific Latin Missourium (A. Koch 1841 or earlier: see quot. 1841¹) < the name of the U.S. state of Missouri (see Missouri n. and adj.), where the fossil skeleton was discovered + classical Latin -um, neuter ending.Compare Koch's slightly earlier formation Missourian:1839 A. Koch in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 37 192 Until it is recognized or proved to have been previously described, I shall name it Koch's Missourian. Palaeontology. Now historical. A large fossil skeleton (or composite of more than one skeleton) found in Missouri around 1839, originally claimed to be a new species but later identified as a mastodon ( Mammut americanus). Also figurative. ΚΠ 1841 A. Koch (title) Description of the Missourium, or Missouri leviathan. 1841 J. Pedder Let. 20 Nov. in Nat. Hist. (1936) Feb. 171/2 The Bones of the Missourium are arrived amongst you... I have taken up the Idea that the animal was of the Tortoise Tribe. 1842 Proc. Geol. Soc. 3 690 The author [sc. Richard Owen]..arrived at the conclusion that the Missourium is either a Tetracaulodon or Mastodon. 1850 R. W. Emerson Swedenborg in Representative Men iii. 104 One of the missouriums and mastodons of literature, he is not to be measured by whole colleges of ordinary scholars. 1870 A. J. Davis Approaching Crisis (ed. 2) 119 They were to the present race of men what the megatherium, the missourium, and the mammoth were to the present existing types of animals. 1887 Scribner's Mag. Apr. 473/2 In 1840 ‘Dr.’ Koch, a German charlatan, created a great sensation by announcing the discovery of the leviathan of Job, which he called the Missourium, from the State where it was found. 1942 H. F. Osborn Proboscidea II. 1602 On the same plate Dr. Warren figures Koch's ‘Missourium’, a composite of several specimens found near Kimmswick, Missouri and now in the British Museum. 1965 R. Silverberg Scientists & Scoundrels 57 He [sc. Koch] dubbed it Missourium, as though to set it apart from from the mastodons already known. 1992 J. W. Fox et al. Proboscidean & Paleoindian Interactions 15 The Peale Mastodon, Big Bone Lick, ‘The Missourium’–the history of these early proboscidean discoveries has been well told. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1841
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