单词 | mushroom stone |
释义 | mushroom stonen.ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > concretion or petrifaction > [noun] > coral > specific coral-stone1607 mushroom stone1668 starry stone1677 mushroom coral1681 stone-mushroom1687 organ-pipe coral1833 Neptune's cup1839 1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 267 Fungites..Mushrum-stone. a1728 J. Woodward Attempt Nat. Hist. Fossils Eng. (1729) 137 Fifteen other mushroom-stones of near the same shape with the precedent... These are of a white colour, and in shape exactly resembling a sort of coralline fungus of marine original, which I have by me. 1770 Philos. Trans. 1769 (Royal Soc.) 59 p. xviii [In list of presents made to the Society] A Mushroom Stone from Italy. 1860 A. N. Bell Knowl. Living Things 75 Mushroom-Stones, which are exported from Italy, are a species of volcanic tufa. 2. Archaeology. Any of a number of stone artefacts, usually around 30 cms (12 inches) high, carved in the form of a mushroom cap supported by the figure of an animal, god, etc., found in Guatemala and occasionally elsewhere in Mesoamerica.Mushroom stones are chiefly Mayan in origin and have been dated between approximately 1500 b.c. and 900 a.d. They are believed to be associated with the ritual use of hallucinogenic mushrooms. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun] > a sculpture or carving graving1382 carvingc1384 similitudea1450 piece1579 insculpturea1616 sculpture1616 draught1646 cut1658 cutting1787 sculpc1845 mushroom stone1957 1957 V. P. Watson & R. G. Wasson Mushrooms, Russia & Hist. xiv. 276 We were the first to suggest..that the ‘mushroom stones’ were actually stone effigies of mushrooms, that there had been at one time a cult of the mushroom in the highlands of Guatemala. 1969 Science 17 Jan. 246/3 Archaeological ‘mushroom stones’ indicate that a sophisticated mushroom cult existed in Guatemala 3500 years ago. 1974 M. C. Gerald Pharmacol. xvii. 326 ‘Mushroom stones’, depicting the head or entire figure of a god.., have been found in Guatemala. 1999 Encycl. Brit. Online (Version 99.1) at Pre-Columbian civilizations Also present in the tombs are peculiar ‘mushroom stones’, which may actually have been used in rites connected with hallucinogenic mushrooms. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1668 |
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