† carditen.

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

Etymology: < post-classical Latin cardites, apparently < ancient Greek καρδία heart (see cardia n.) + classical Latin -ītēs -ite suffix¹, perhaps after bucardites stone in the shape of an ox's heart (1648 or earlier).Compare French cardite (1763 or earlier). It is unclear whether cardites in the following quot. represents an English or a Latin form:1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire v. 127 At Heddington in the same Quarry there are plenty of Cardites, or stones in the forms of hearts, but by Authors, because of their bigness, generally called Bucardites, or stones like Bulls hearts.

Palaeontology. Obsolete.

Any of various fossil bivalve molluscs having heart-shaped shells.

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1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Bucardites The bucardites are the larger stones of the species of cardites.

1780 W. Smellie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Gen. & Particular I. 221 I have seen some arable fields so full of petrified cockles, that they might be picked up by a blind man, others entirely covered with cornu ammonis, and others with cardites [Fr. pierres étoient des cœurs de bœuf pétrifiez].

1826 S. L. Mitchill Catal. Org. Remains 20 Another Galway specimen; being pyrites, or splendid sulphuret of iron, in crystals, distributed over the surface of a cardite.

1861 A. Schott in Rep. Secretary of War communicating Lt. Michler's Rep. Interoceanic Ship Canal viii. 170 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (36th Congr., 2nd Sess.: Senate Executive Doc. 9) VII It is zoölogically characterized by cardites and meandrites which abound in the strata situated on the east side of that town (sc. Cartajena).

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021).

单词	cardite
释义	† carditen. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin cardites. Etymology: < post-classical Latin cardites, apparently < ancient Greek καρδία heart (see cardia n.) + classical Latin -ītēs -ite suffix¹, perhaps after bucardites stone in the shape of an ox's heart (1648 or earlier).Compare French cardite (1763 or earlier). It is unclear whether cardites in the following quot. represents an English or a Latin form:1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire v. 127 At Heddington in the same Quarry there are plenty of Cardites, or stones in the forms of hearts, but by Authors, because of their bigness, generally called Bucardites, or stones like Bulls hearts. Palaeontology. Obsolete. Any of various fossil bivalve molluscs having heart-shaped shells. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > integro-pallialia > family Cyprinidae > member of cardite1753 skimmer1881 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Bucardites The bucardites are the larger stones of the species of cardites. 1780 W. Smellie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Gen. & Particular I. 221 I have seen some arable fields so full of petrified cockles, that they might be picked up by a blind man, others entirely covered with cornu ammonis, and others with cardites [Fr. pierres étoient des cœurs de bœuf pétrifiez]. 1826 S. L. Mitchill Catal. Org. Remains 20 Another Galway specimen; being pyrites, or splendid sulphuret of iron, in crystals, distributed over the surface of a cardite. 1861 A. Schott in Rep. Secretary of War communicating Lt. Michler's Rep. Interoceanic Ship Canal viii. 170 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (36th Congr., 2nd Sess.: Senate Executive Doc. 9) VII It is zoölogically characterized by cardites and meandrites which abound in the strata situated on the east side of that town (sc. Cartajena). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021). < n.1753
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