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单词 tellinite
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telliniten.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; partly modelled on a German lexical item, and partly modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: tellina n., -ite suffix1.
Etymology: < tellina n. + -ite suffix1, after German Tellinit (1706 or earlier). Compare French tellinite (1753 or earlier), post-classical Latin tellinites (1612 or earlier).Compare the following example of post-classical Latin tellinites in an English context:1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 104 It cannot be a Tellinites, which shellfish (if at all) is never streaked that way. N.E.D. (1911) gives the pronunciation as (te·linəit) /ˈtɛlɪnaɪt/.
Palaeontology. Obsolete.
A fossil shell resembling one of the genus Tellina (see tellin n.).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Tellinidae > fossil
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1798 G. Mitchell tr. D. L. G. Karsten Descr. Minerals in Leskean Mus. II. 430 Sandstone with very numerous inlaying rough Tellinites... A three inch long and nearly as broad Tellinite, on Sandstone.
1802 F. W. Blagdon tr. P. S. Pallas Trav. Southern Provinces Russ. Empire I. 515 Hard layers..interspersed throughout with pectinites, tellinites [Ger. Telliniten], and oolites.
1841 Proc. Geol. Soc. 3 539 The argument pursued in M. Voltz's memoir on these problematic Tellinites.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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