encrinite

[ en-kruh-nahyt ]

noun

1. a fossil crinoid.

encrinite

/ ˈɛnkrɪˌnaɪt /

noun

1. (in the US) a sedimentary rock formed almost exclusively from the skeletal plates of crinoids Sometimes shortened tocrinite

Word History and Origins

Origin of encrinite¹

1800–10; < New Latin encrin ( us ) (< Greek en- en- ² + krínon lily) + -ite ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of encrinite¹

C19: from New Latin encrinus (from Greek en- ² + krinon lily) + -ite ¹

Example Sentences

Stone′horse, a stallion; Stone′-lil′y, the popular name of an Encrinite; Stone′-mā′son, a mason who works with stone; Stone′-mill, a machine for breaking stone; Stone′-oil, rock-oil, petroleum; Stone′-pine, a Mediterranean nut-pine; Stone′-plov′er, the stone-curlew; Stō′ner, one who strikes or kills with stones; Stone′-rag, -raw, a lichen, Parmelia saxatilis; Stone′-snipe, the greater tell-tale or long-legged tattler, a common North American bird.—adj.

From Project Gutenberg

Pinn′ūle, one of the branchlets of a pinnate leaf: one of the lateral divisions of the finger-like stalks of an encrinite—also Pinn′ūla.—Pinnate leaf, a compound leaf wherein a single petiole has several leaflets attached to each side of it.

From Project Gutenberg

Entrochite, en′trō-kīt, n. a wheel-like joint of an encrinite or fossil crinoid—also En′trochus.—adj.

From Project Gutenberg

Encrinite, en′kri-nīt, n. a common fossil crinoid, found thick in limestone and marble—called also Stone-lily.—adjs.

From Project Gutenberg

Then, silently and with great caution, Dummy led on along a wild chasm of the same nature as others they had passed, and formed, evidently during some convulsion, the encrinite marble of which the walls were composed matching exactly, and merely requiring lateral pressure and the trickling of lime-charged water to become solid once again.

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