dysodile
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek [Term?] (“ill-smelling”).
Noun
dysodile (usually uncountable, plural dysodiles)
- (mineralogy) An impure earthy or coaly bitumen, which emits a highly foetid odour when burning.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for dysodile in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)