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stone lily

noun

  1. a fossil crinoid.


stone-lily

noun

  1. the fossil of any of several species of sea lily or crinoid
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of stone lily1

First recorded in 1800–10
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This was really an animal, but it looked somewhat like a closed pond lily with a long stem, and people used to call it the stone lily.

The stone lily in the child's pocket made it evident that he himself had been in the moonshiners' cavern, the only one known to the vicinity, or that the stone had been given to him by some frequenter of that den—hardly to be supposed previous to the catastrophe.

"You haven't left Daisy somewhere, changed into a stone lily?" pursued McFarlane.

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