| 单词 | starred stone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstarred stone ΚΠ 1657 W. Rand tr. P. Gassendi Mirrour of Nobility ii. 122 A starred stone resembling Corall [L. de lapide item Coralloide stellato]. 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis iii. §i. v. 305 The Starred-Stone. Astroites. So called, for that being tabulated, or polish'd to a plain, it appears adorned with little Stars. 1757 E. M. da Costa Nat. Hist. Fossils 245 Bruckman, in his dissertation on this starred stone,..refutes the idle and erroneous notion of its being formed by spiders. 1868 tr. L. Figuier Ocean World vii. 149 The madrepores and starred stones of Lasueur, who is reminded of a field enamelled with small flowers when he sees the little polypes of Porites Astroïdes in full blow. < as lemmas |
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